Severe subluxation in the sniffing position in a rheumatoid patient with anterior atlantoaxial subluxation

Anesthesiology

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1235-1237

  Takenaka, Ichiro ^a,b   Urakami, Yasunari ^a   Aoyama, Kazuyoshi ^b   Terada, Tadanori ^a   Ishimura, Hiroshi ^a   Iwagaki, Tamao ^a   Kadoya, Tatsuo ^a  

^a STEEL MEMORIAL YAWATA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Moji Rosai Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; MIDAZOLAM; PROPOFOL;

ADULT; ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; ATLANTOAXIAL SUBLUXATION; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOULNAR JOINT; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPINAL ANESTHESIA;

ANESTHESIA; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT; DISLOCATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; JOINTS; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; POSTURE;

EID: 7244257641     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200411000-00028     Document Type: Article

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