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Strategies to avoid internal carotid artery injury in sandwich atlantoaxial dislocation patients during surgery

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ACTA NEUROCHIRURGICA
卷 165, 期 5, 页码 1155-1160

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SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-022-05449-7

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Atlantoaxial dislocation; Internal carotid artery injury; Atlantoaxial fusion; Sandwich fusion; C1 lateral mass screw

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The study aims to clarify the anatomical relationship between the internal carotid artery (ICA) and the bony structures of the craniovertebral junction in sandwich atlantoaxial dislocation (AAD) patients, and analyze the risks of injury during surgical procedures. The results indicate the importance of paying attention to the position of the ICA during surgery to prevent injury. This study is crucial for surgical safety and prevention of potential risks.
Purpose To elucidate the anatomic relationship between the internal carotid artery (ICA) and the bony structures of the craniovertebral junction among sandwich atlantoaxial dislocation (AAD) patients, and to analyze the risks of injury during surgical procedures.Methods The distance from the medial wall of ICA to the midsagittal plane (D1), the shortest distance between the ICA wall and the anterior cortex of the lateral mass of atlas (LMA) (D2) on the most caudal and cranial levels of LMA and the angle (A) between the sagittal plane passing through the screw entry point of C1 lateral mass(C1LM) screw and the medial tangent line of the vessel passing through the entry point were measured. Besides, the location of ICA in front of the atlantoaxial vertebra was divided into 4 categories (Z1-Z4).Results There was a statistically difference between the male and female patients regarding D1, and the difference between D2 at level a and level b as well as angle A between the left and right sides were statistically different (p < 0.05). Ninety-two ICAs (57.5%) were anteriorly located in Z3, 50 (31.3%) were located in Z4, 17 were located in Z2, and only one ICA was located in Z1 in all 80 patients.Conclusions In sandwich AAD patients, particular attention should be paid to excessively medialized ICA to avoid ICA injury during trans-oral procedures, and the risk of injuring the ICA with more cranially and medially angulated C1LM screw placement was relatively less during posterior fixation procedures. A novel classification of ICA location was used to describe the relationship between ICA and LMA.

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