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Year : 2001  |  Volume : 49  |  Issue : 1  |  Page : 102-

Cranio - vertebral anomaly - type II basilar invagination (Dejerine Type), persistent spheno - occipital synchondrosis, foramen magnum stenosis, cervical stenosis with chronic cervical cord atrophy.

MA Aleem, D Ramasubramanian 
 Department of Neurology, Madurai Medical College, Madurai - 625 020, Tamilnadu, India., India

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M A Aleem
Department of Neurology, Madurai Medical College, Madurai - 625 020, Tamilnadu, India.
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Aleem M A, Ramasubramanian D. Cranio - vertebral anomaly - type II basilar invagination (Dejerine Type), persistent spheno - occipital synchondrosis, foramen magnum stenosis, cervical stenosis with chronic cervical cord atrophy. Neurol India 2001;49:102-102


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Aleem M A, Ramasubramanian D. Cranio - vertebral anomaly - type II basilar invagination (Dejerine Type), persistent spheno - occipital synchondrosis, foramen magnum stenosis, cervical stenosis with chronic cervical cord atrophy. Neurol India [serial online] 2001 [cited 2023 Mar 27 ];49:102-102
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A 45 year old male presented with features of high cervical cord compressive rediculo myelopathy. MRI showed type II basilar invagination (Dejerine Type) [Figure:1] in the form of thickened foramen magnum (opisthion) with upwardly convex paramedian occiput and foramen magnum. Evidence of persistence of the spheno-occipital synchondrosis along with basilar invagination causing foramen magnum stenosis (AP diameter-2.5 cm) [Figure:2]. The cervical cord shows compressive myelopathy in the form of atrophy with hyperintense signals due to disc protrusion at C3-C4 to C5-C6 [Figure:3], which is more prominent at C3-C4 level. The CSF subarachnoid space was narrow from C1 to C6 [Figure:4].