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Letter to the Editor
Cervical myelopathy as the initial manifestation of os odontoideum
Mielopatía cervical como forma de presentación de un os odontoideo
H. Tejada Meza
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, P. Modrego Pardo, J. Gazulla Abio
Departamento de Neurología, Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Zaragoza, Spain
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including no history of head or neck trauma&#44; and a low-risk job&#46; She had a 3-year history of progressive difficulty walking due to subjective left-sided weakness but showed no dysphagia or other symptoms&#46; The physical examination revealed deep tendon reflexes&#44; ankle clonus&#44; and Babinski sign present on the left side of her body&#46; We found no skin hyperlaxity&#44; joint hypermobility&#44; or alterations in temperature and pain sensitivity&#46;</p><p id="par0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The complementary tests found no signs of either rheumatic disease or disorders of calcium and phosphate metabolism&#46; A neck MRI scan displayed previous atlantoaxial dislocation&#44; which compressed the spinal cord at the cervicomedullary junction &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Fig&#46; 1</a>&#41;&#46; A complementary CT scan of the cervical spine revealed os odontoideum &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0010">Fig&#46; 2</a>&#41;&#46; The figures show the os odontoideum protruding above the Chamberlain line&#44; an imaginary line joining the back of the hard palate with the opisthion on a lateral view of the cervical spine&#46; As no other bone lesions can be seen&#44; this finding indicates basilar invagination&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0005"></elsevierMultimedia><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0010"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The patient underwent occipitocervical arthrodesis and a bilateral C1 laminectomy&#59; as a result of the intervention&#44; left-sided weakness subsided&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0010" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0010">Discussion</span><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">There are 2 widely accepted hypotheses about the aetiology of os odontoideum&#46; The first suggests that the anomaly is secondary to an odontoid synchondrosis fracture before the synchondrosis fuses &#40;by the age of 5 or 6&#41;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0070"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a>&#59; during growth&#44; the alar ligaments progressively pull the odontoid process fragment&#44; which detaches from the base of the axis but keeps receiving nutrients via the blood supply from the apical arcade &#40;in some series&#44; trauma was the aetiology in up to 56&#37; of the patients&#41;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0075"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> The second hypothesis proposes that os odontoideum has a congenital origin&#44; as may be the case in our patient&#44; since the CT scan of the cervical spine revealed the presence of basilar invagination&#46; The presence of os odontoideum has been described in identical twins<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0080"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> as well as in families&#44; suggesting an autosomal dominant pattern&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0085"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4&#44;5</span></a> Some researchers have found genes associated with the disease&#44; a few of which are linked to morphogenesis and bone maintenance&#46; Between twins with os odontoideum and a control group&#44; Straus et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0095"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a> identified differences in the expression of 213 genes&#44; and also found increased expression of the genes <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">MMP8</span>&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">KIT</span>&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">HIF1A</span>&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">CREB3</span>&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">PWHAZ</span>&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">TGFBR1</span>&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">NFKB2</span>&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">FGFR1</span>&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">IPO8</span>&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">STAT1</span>&#44; COL1<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">A1</span>&#44; and <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">BMP3</span> in a group of patients with os odontoideum&#46;</p><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Depending on the position of the odontoid process fragment&#44; os odontoideum may be classified as orthotopic&#44; when the fragment is in its anatomical position&#44; or dystopic&#44; when it is displaced &#40;as in our case&#41;&#46; Dystopic os odontoideum usually presents with a narrowing of the craniocervical junction and is the type most frequently associated with atlantoaxial dislocation&#46;</p><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Clinical expression of os odontoideum is variable and may be divided into 4 categories&#58; 1&#41; asymptomatic &#40;even in cases of atlantoaxial dislocation demonstrated by imaging techniques&#41;&#44; 2&#41; local symptoms &#40;cervical pain&#44; torticollis&#44; headache&#41;&#44; 3&#41; other symptoms associated with cervical compressive myelopathy &#40;which may be transient&#44; static&#44; or progressive&#41;&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0100"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a> and 4&#41; symptoms secondary to vertebrobasilar ischaemia&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0105"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">8&#44;9</span></a> Cases of sudden death have also been reported&#46;</p><p id="par0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Diagnosis is based on imaging findings and cervical radiographs usually suffice&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0110"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span></a> However&#44; CT and MR images are more precise and also show spinal cord involvement&#46; In the case presented here&#44; and despite their diagnostic capacity&#44; no cervical flexion-extension images were taken as performing them could have been perjudicial to our patient&#39;s clinical state&#46;</p><p id="par0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Currently recommended treatments for os odontoideum are supported by class III medical evidence only&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0110"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span></a> Asymptomatic patients with no atlantoaxial dislocation may be treated conservatively with clinical and radiological follow-up&#58; although most series describe no progression&#44; some patients may present atlantoaxial dislocation at later stages&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0115"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">10&#44;11</span></a> Surgery&#44; especially posterior C1-C2 fixation and arthrodesis&#44; is recommended for patients with neurological symptoms and atlantoaxial dislocation&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0110"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9&#44;12</span></a> Surgery is also recommended for asymptomatic patients with atlantoaxial dislocation since minor cervical trauma may result in spinal cord damage&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0075"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2&#44;9&#44;10</span></a> although in some studies&#44; 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es en pt

¿Es usted profesional sanitario apto para prescribir o dispensar medicamentos?

Are you a health professional able to prescribe or dispense drugs?

Você é um profissional de saúde habilitado a prescrever ou dispensar medicamentos