Occipitocervical fusion has potential to improve sleep apnea in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and upper cervical lesions

Spine

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 2010, Pages

  Ataka, Hiromi ^a   Tanno, Takaaki ^a   Miyashita, Tomohiro ^a   Isono, Shiroh ^b   Yamazaki, Masashi ^b  

^a Matsudo City Hospital   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

craniovertebral junction; O C2 angle; occipitocervical fusion; rheumatoid arthritis; sleep apnea

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APNEA HYPOPNEA INDEX; ARTICLE; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL FUSION; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ATLANTO-OCCIPITAL JOINT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; JOINT INSTABILITY; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SPINAL FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77956418696     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181c691df     Document Type: Article

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