Publications by authors named "Alexander V Burcev"
Objective: To analyze clinical and radiologic features of pathologic atlantoaxial displacement (PAAD) in pediatric patients and to compose a treatment algorithm for anomaly-related PAAD.
Background: Criteria of different types of PAAD and treatment algorithms have been widely reported in the literature but are difficult to apply to patients with odontoid abnormalities, C2-C3 block, spina bifida C1, and children.
Methods: We evaluated results of treatment of 29 pediatric patients with PAAD caused by congenital anomalies of the craniovertebral junction (CVJ), treated in Ilizarov Center in 2009-2017, including 20 patients with atlantoaxial displacement (AAD) and 9 patients with atlantoaxial rotatory fixation.
Easy method to simplify "freehand" subaxial cervical pedicle screw insertion.
J Craniovertebr Junction Spine
January 2017
Study Design: Technical note.
Objectives: The objective of this study is to check out safety and rationality of standardized and fast tricks to select trajectory of subaxial cervical pedicle screw (SCPS) insertion, based on simple angles to bony landmarks.
Materials And Methods: Stage 1 - Computed tomography (CT)-morphometric analysis of C3-C7 vertebrae of ten patients with cervical degenerative diseases.