Occipital Condyle Fracture

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Department of Orthopaedics, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington. During the last 4 years, the authors have had six cases of Occipital Condyle Fractures, a very rare injury. Medline search yielded reports of 20 Occipital Condyle Fractures in the Collet-Sicard syndrome is occipital condylar fracture with IX, X, XI, and XII cranial nerve involvement. [17, 18, 19] Approximately 25% of patients with depressed skull fracture do not report loss of consciousness, and another 25% lose consciousness for MADURAI: A person who suffered a rare type of fracture was treated upon in a hospital here where he attained 95 per cent recovery. Only 35 people who sustained `Occipital Condyle Fracture' have survived across the globe, Jawahar Hospitals claimed here on Type I fractures are rare and involve the tip of the dens where the alar ligaments insert. The mechanism of injury and management is similar to a type III Occipital Condyle Fracture. A type II fracture is a transverse fracture through the base of the dens He had a comminuted depressed skull fracture of the left temporal lobe as well as a left occipital condyle fracture. Further investigations also revealed an underlying temporal lobe contusion and dissection of his left internal carotid artery. Not Mallicoat sustained a severe traumatic brain injury, multiple facial fractures and a fracture to the right occipital condyle as a result of the ATV accident. He was in a coma and opened his eyes for the first time on April 1. He remained at Vanderbilt .

Ryan almost died that night. In a coma for two weeks, he suffered a spinal cord injury at the T3 level, a three part C-1 fracture, occipital condyle fracture, severe leg injury from the knee down on his right leg, collapsed right lung, bilateral lung He had a comminuted depressed skull fracture of the left temporal lobe as well as a left occipital condyle fracture. Further investigations also revealed an underlying temporal lobe contusion and dissection of his left internal carotid artery. Not “I talked them out of it,” Roeder said. “They found that the fractures to my C5 and C6 vertebrae were stable, and that I had a slight chip in my left occipital condyle [near the base of the skull] that was unstable, but it is such a small piece that Other injuries were identified, including a left vertebral artery injury and fractures of the occipital condyle, foramen magnum, and second rib. There were also fractures of the thoracic and lumbar spine. He required multiple washouts for the open scapula .

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