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Congenital Malformations

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Congenital malformations of the occipitocervical junctional region are very rare in daily practice. Nevertheless, despite they are seldom and briefly reported in specialized books (a single page in the super-specialized one by Mallet et Lechevalier) or papers (most of times on a case), its knowledge is not anecdotic and it is obliged for doctors devoted to cervical spine conditions.

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Villas, C. (2013). Congenital Malformations. In: Korres, D. (eds) The Axis Vertebra. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5232-1_14

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