Occipitocervical fusion in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 366, Issue , 1999, Pages 46-53

  Grob, Dieter ^a   Schütz, Uwe ^a   Plötz, Gerhard ^a  

^a SCHULTHESS CLINIC   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BONE PLATE; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPINE FUSION; SPINE INSTABILITY; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

EID: 0345034762     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-199909000-00007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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