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Variable surgical techniques have been employed to achieve fusion. The study aimed to assess bony fusion with rigid craniocervical fixation using an allograft bone block to serve as scaffold for bony fusion.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>This is a single center case series from a tertiary referral neurosurgical center. The series includes 12 consecutive pediatric patients with rigid craniocervical fusion between 2006 and 2014. The primary outcome was bony fusion as assessed by computed tomography and flexion-extension radiographs. The authors did not receive external funding for this study.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Twelve patients (age 1\u201315\u00a0years) were operated with a median imaging follow-up time of 22\u00a0months (range 6\u201369\u00a0m). A modified Gallie fusion technique with a tightly wired allograft bone block was used in 10 of 13 procedures. One patient underwent re-fixation due to screw breakage. Eleven out of 13 procedures resulted in a stable construct with bony fusion. All 10 patients operated with the modified Gallie fusion technique with sublaminar wiring of allograft bone block had bony fusion. No post-operative complications of the posterior fixation procedure were noted.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>The modified Gallie fusion technique with allograft bone block without post-operative immobilization achieved excellent fusion. 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