TY  - JOUR
AB  - Background: Clivus fractures are highly uncommon. The classification by Corradino et al. divides the different lesions in longitudinal, transverse and oblique fractures. Longitudinal types are associated with the highest mortality rate between 67 – 80%. Clivus fractures are often found after high velocity trauma, especially traffic accidents and falls. The risk of neurologic lesions is high, because of the anatomic proximity to neurovascular structures like the brainstem, the vertebrobasilar artery, and the cranial nerves. Longitudinal clivus fractures have a special risk of causing entrapment of the basilar artery and thus ischemia of the brainstem. Case presentation: This lesion in our patient was a combination-fracture of the craniocervical junction with a transverse clivus fracture. In this case, the primary closed reduction of the clivus fracture and the immobilization with a halo device was the therapy of choice and led to consolidation of the fracture. Conclusion: Therapy advices and examples in the literature are scarce. We present a patient with a clivus fracture, who could be well treated by a halo device. Through detailed research of the literature a therapy algorithm has been developed.
AU  - Evers, Julia
AU  - Vieth, Volker
AU  - Hartensuer, René
AU  - Raschke, Michael J.
AU  - Vordemvenne, Thomas
DA  - 2013-12-23
DO  - 10.1186/1756-0500-6-554
KW  - Clivus fracture
KW  - Craniocervical junction
KW  - Halo device
LA  - eng
N1  - Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds 2013/2014 der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) und der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster).
N1  - BMC Research Notes 6 (2013) 554
PY  - 2013-12-23
TI  - Management of an extended clivus fracture: a case report
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-74309586259
Y2  - 2024-11-21T16:08:01
ER  -