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Odontoid Peg Fracture

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M67, RH, lives on his own, with known spinal and pelvic metastatic prostate Ca received in the past XRT and hormonal therapy presented with fall from stairs 3D ago causing significant neck pain and right shoulder soft tissue injury, o/e neurologically intact except mild limitation of right shoulder ROM due to localised injury

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Abbreviations

C spine:

Cervical spine

Ca:

Cancer

MSCC:

Metastatic spinal cord compression

T2WI:

T2 weighted MRI imaging sequence

VA:

Vertebral artery

VB:

Vertebral body

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Tolias, C.M., Giamouriadis, A., Hogg, F.R.A., Ghimire, P. (2019). Odontoid Peg Fracture. In: Neurosurgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98234-2_9

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