Closed reduction of traumatic atlantoaxial rotatory subluxation with type II odontoid fracture

Background: Traumatic atlantoaxial rotatory subluxation (TAARS) in adults is rare. We present an uncommon case of traumatic atlantoaxial rotatory subluxation with an associated type II odontoid fracture in a neurologically-intact patient and describe a novel technique used for a successful closed reduction. Case description: A 20-year-old female presented with a decreased level of consciousness after being involved in a motor vehicle accident at highway speeds. A computed tomography (CT) demonstrated atlantoaxial rotatory subluxation and a type II odontoid fracture. CT angiography showed a left V3 vertebral dissection. She was neurologically intact on examination. A halo ring was applied and the patient successfully underwent closed reduction using traction and a novel transoral reduction technique described below. After closed reduction, a C1–C2 posterior instrumented fusion was performed. At 12-weeks follow-up, the patient was asymptomatic, neurologically intact with optimally-maintained cervical spine alignment. Conclusion: Prompt manual closed reduction can safely be achieved in adults using this novel transoral reduction technique, which we describe for the first time in this report

Robert Duncan’s Legacies: a Centennial Celebration

2019 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Californian poet Robert Duncan (January 7, 1919 – February 3, 1988), whose work and influence have drawn ever-growing scholarly attention. All of the papers gathered together in this issue began as presentations at “Passages”: The Robert Duncan Centennial Conference in Paris held in June 2019 at Sorbonne Université. Organized by Hélène Aji, Stephen Collis, Xavier Kalck, James Maynard, and Clément Oudart, and co-sponsored by Simon Fraser University, the University at Buffalo Libraries Poetry Collection, Université Paris Nanterre and Sorbonne Université, the three-day conference included three keynote addresses, three plenary panels, ten workshops, a roundtable discussion, and two poetry readings, featuring over 50 presenters and a high number of attendees from around the world. We are pleased to present here eighteen of those presentations, comprising thirteen formal essays along with five more personal testimonies that serve as the coda to each section, and to take this opportunity to reflect briefly on the history of Duncan studies before considering more specifically his modernist, formal, poetic, social, and queer legacies at the century