Oblique Axis Body Fracture: An Unstable Subtype of Anderson Type III Odontoid Fractures—Apropos of Two Cases

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Cervical spine CT imaging of a 71-year-old woman. (a) Coronal plane CT imaging showing the minimally displaced oblique type axis body fracture. Note the marked similarity of the fracture pattern when compared to that shown in Figure 1(a). (b) Three-dimensional computed tomographic VRT reconstruction following C1–C3/C4 posterior fusion with a polyaxial screw-rod construct.

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