Radiological Changes After Craniovertebral Junction Stabilization: Evaluation of Established Measurements and Novel Cranial and Caudal Anterior Atlantodental Interval Parameters
Nurullah Kösmene, Efecan Erişken, İsmail Ertan Sevin, Hasan Kamil Sucu · 2026
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Description
Fixing the junction where skull meets spine changes a knot of anatomical distances, and no single measurement captures the result. Nurullah Kösmene and co-authors reviewed 2026 scans from 26 patients stabilized at that junction, measuring eleven parameters before and after surgery, each read twice by two observers working blind.
Standard distances from the odontoid peg to three skull-base lines all shrank after surgery. The team's novel measure — splitting the atlanto-dental interval into cranial and caudal parts — also shrank on both parts, while the gap between the parts did not change. Observer agreement was good to excellent throughout. The authors present the split interval as an exploratory extra lens on surgical change, not yet tied to patient outcomes or thresholds.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Nurullah Kösmene, Efecan Erişken, İsmail Ertan Sevin, Hasan Kamil Sucu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |