Results of a longer than 10-year follow-up of patients with Rheumatoid arthritis treated by occipitocervical fusion

Spine

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 1749-1753

  Matsunaga, Shunji ^a   Ijiri, Kousei ^a   Koga, Hiroaki ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atlantoaxial dislocation; Occipitocervical fusion; Survival rate; Vertical dislocation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATLANTOAXIAL DISLOCATION; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL JOINT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MALE; NECK PAIN; ODONTOID PROCESS FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE FUSION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRA DISLOCATION;

AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ATLANTO-OCCIPITAL JOINT; BONE NAILS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK PAIN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; SPINAL FUSION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034661961     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-200007150-00002     Document Type: Article

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