Concezio Di Rocco • Nejat Akalan
Editors

2014

Surgical Management of Craniovertebral Junction Diseases in Children

The management of the congenital and acquired diseases of the craniovertebral junction (CVJ), that is, the occipital bone which surrounds the foramen magnum, the atlas, and the axis vertebrae, constitutes one of the more complex chapters of neurosurgery. This is particularly true in the pediatric population in which the neurosurgeon is faced with a large variety of congenital developmental anomalies and acquired diseases; the treatment of which is weighted by further problems possibly related to the necessity of not interfering with still-growing structures signifi cantly.