Inflammatory atlanto-axial subluxation (Grisel's syndrome) in children: Clinical diagnosis and management

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 19, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 342-347

  Fernández Cornejo, Víctor J ^a   Martínez Lage, Juan F ^a   Piqueras, Claudio ^a   Gelabert, Amparo ^a   Poza, Máximo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atlanto axial subluxation; Cervical spine pathology; Childhood spinal diseases; Grisel's syndrome; Inflammatory spinal diseases; Non traumatic cervical subluxation

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; ATLANTOAXIAL JOINT; ATLANTOAXIAL SUBLUXATION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEAD TILTING; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NECK PAIN; NEUROSURGERY; OTITIS MEDIA; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TORTICOLLIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFLAMMATION; MALE; PAIN; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 18144446838     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-003-0749-6     Document Type: Article

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