Table 2

Demographic and clinical data of the patients.

Characteristic	Patient 1	Patient 2
Gender	Man	Man
Age, y	61	63
Injury mechanism	Simple fall	Simple fall
C1 fracture^{^a}	Type II	Type II
Odontoid fracture^{^b}	Type IIB	Type IIB
TAL injury^{^c}	Type II	Type II
Neurological deficit	Transient paresthesias	No
Follow-up, mo	21	25

Abbreviation: TAL, transverse atlantal ligament.
↵a Landells and Van Peteghem’s classification.
↵b Anderson-D’ Alonzo classification.
↵c Dickman classification.