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The use of CT angiography in the preoperative planning of cervical spine surgery in children
Child's Nervous System, 06/03/09

Barker R et al. - The combination of congenital deformity, small size and a recent trend toward instrumentation of the craniocervical junction in the paediatric population mandates accurate knowledge of the vertebral artery relationships to the local neural and bony structures prior to complex surgical interventions. Whilst the authors do not advocate imaging of the vertebral arteries in all patients requiring cervical spine surgery, this technique has been shown to be a very useful investigation in selected cases.

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