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Occult spinal canal stenosis due to C-1 hypoplasia in children with Down syndrome.
J Neurosurg
December 2007
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Imakiire General Hospital Kibougaoka Hospital, Kagoshima, Japan.
Object: Little has been published about subclinical spinal canal stenosis due to C-1 hypoplasia in patients with Down syndrome. In this paper the authors performed a matched comparison study with cross-sectional survey to investigate occult spinal canal stenosis due to C-1 hypoplasia in children with Down syndrome.
Methods: A total of 102 children with Down syndrome ranging in age from 10 to 15 years were matched according to age and physique with 176 normal children.