Atlantoaxial arthrodesis for vertebrobasilar insufficiency due to rheumatoid arthritis: A case report

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 711-714

  Maekawa, Toru ^a   Sasai, Kunihiko ^b   Iida, Hirokazu ^b   Yamashita, Keiji ^c   Sakaida, Minoru ^c  

^a Kishiwada City Hospital   (Japan)

^b KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Social Insurance Shiga Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTHRODESIS; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; ATLANTOAXIAL DISLOCATION; ATLANTOAXIAL JOINT; BRACE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COXITIS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KNEE ARTHRITIS; LABORATORY TEST; NECK PAIN; NEURALGIA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATHOLOGICAL REFLEX; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RADIOGRAPHY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEIZURE; SLURRED SPEECH; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL NERVE; TENDON REFLEX; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY; VERTIGO;

EID: 0038373890     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/00004623-200304000-00020     Document Type: Article

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