Resumen

MEDINA, G et al. Tratamiento conservador de la fractura de "La Apófisis Odontoides", en la emergencia de Traumatología. Hospital Vargas de Caracas. Período 2000-2001. RFM [online]. 2003, vol.26, n.1, pp.39-43. ISSN 0798-0469.

ABSTRACT      Six patients with I diagnose of fracture of apophysis traumatic odondontoides, he/she was carried out a clinical history and physical exam where you determines the sintomatología, the neurological deficit «Motor Índex Score» and they practiced studies of x A/P, Lateral of the cervical column and projection odontoides transoral, sink the TAC and the MRI, they were managed in orthopedic form by means of the installation of the Halo-vest, low pursuit imagenológico and radiological, he/she decreased and I align the body of the odontoides, egresando at the 12 hours, with a time of pursuit and evolution of 18 months average.

Palabras clave : Halo-Vest; Motor Index Score; Dens; Pseudoartrosis; Halo-Vest; Motor Index Score; Dens; Pseudoartrosis.