Results after 24 years of prophylactic surgery for rheumatoid atlantoaxial subluxation

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series B

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 955-958

  Tanaka, Nobuyuki ^a   Sakahashi, H ^a   Hirose, K ^a   Ishima, T ^a   Takahashi, H ^b   Ishii, S ^b  

^a Gorinbashi Hospital   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; ATLANTOAXIAL SUBLUXATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPINE FUSION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT; DISLOCATIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 22144463171     PISSN: 0301620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.87B7.15862     Document Type: Article

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