Basilar Invagination References and Resources

Quality of Life After Combined Endonasal Endoscopic Odontoidectomy and Posterior Suboccipital Decompression and Fusion.
Ottenhausen M, Alalade AF, Rumalla K, Nair P, Baaj A, Hartl R, Kacker A, Greenfield JP, Anand VK, Schwartz TH.
World Neurosurg. 2018 Aug;116:e571-e576. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2018.05.041. Epub 2018 Jun 7.

Endoscopic Endonasal Approach to the Upper Cervical Spine for Decompression of the Cervicomedullary Junction Following Occipitocervical Fusion.
Hussain I, Schwartz TH, Greenfield JP.
Clin Spine Surg. 2018 Aug;31(7):285-292. doi: 10.1097/BSD.0000000000000620.

Endoscopic endonasal odontoid resection with real-time intraoperative image-guided computed tomography: report of 4 cases. Singh H, Rote S, Jada A, Bander ED, Almodovar-Mercado GJ, Essayed WI, Härtl R, Anand VK, Schwartz TH, Greenfield JP.
J Neurosurg. 2018 May;128(5):1486-1491. doi: 10.3171/2017.1.JNS162601. Epub 2017 Jun 16.

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