Predictors of outcome in the quadriparetic nonambulatory myelopathic patient with rheumatoid arthritis: A prospective study of 55 surgically treated Ranawat class IIIb patients

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 574-581

  Casey, Adrian T H ^b   Crockard, H Alan ^a   Bland, J Martin ^b   Stevens, John ^b   Moskovich, Ronald ^b   Ransford, Andrew ^b  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

atlantoaxial subluxation; cervical spine; Ranawat classification; rheumatoid arthritis; spinal cord area; Stanford Health Assessment Questionnaire; vertical translocation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUADRIPLEGIA; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029789591     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.1996.85.4.0574     Document Type: Article

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