The crowned dens syndrome as a cause of neck pain: Clinical and computed tomography study in patients with calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate deposition disease

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1040-1046

  Salaffi, Fausto ^a   Carotti, Marina ^a   Guglielmi, Giuseppe ^b   Passarini, Giancarlo ^c   Grassi, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^c Ospedale di Jesi   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystal deposition disease; Cervico occipital junction; Crowned dens syndrome; CT; Neck pain; Radiographs

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM PYROPHOSPHATE;

AGE; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL JOINT; BONE DISEASE; CALCIFICATION; CALCINOSIS; CALCIUM PYROPHOSPHATE DIHYDRATE DEPOSITION DISEASE; CERVICAL SPINE; CHONDROCALCINOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWNED DENS SYNDROME; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; GENDER; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; JOINT STIFFNESS; MALE; NECK PAIN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SYNOVITIS; WEAKNESS;

AGED; ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT; CHONDROCALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NECK PAIN; OCCIPITAL BONE; ODONTOID PROCESS; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 59149099327     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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