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Lower cranial nerve palsies. Potentially lethal in association with upper cervical fracture-dislocations
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Natal Medical School, Congella, South Africa.
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
|May 1, 1991
Abstract:
Palsies of the lower cranial nerves occurred in association with traumatic atlantoaxial dissociations in two patients. The fracture-dislocations sustained were rare injuries and the neurologic complications contributed greatly to their morbidity and mortality.