Three-dimensional morphology and kinematics of the craniovertebral junction in rheumatoid arthritis

Spine

Volumn 35, Issue 23, 2010, Pages

  Takatori, Ryota ^a   Tokunaga, Daisaku ^a   Hase, Hitoshi ^a   Mikami, Yasuo ^a   Ikeda, Takumi ^a   Harada, Tomohisa ^a   Imai, Kan ^a   Ito, Hirotoshi ^a   Nishimura, Tsunehiko ^a   An, Howard S ^b   Inoue, Nozomu ^b   Kubo, Toshikazu ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

craniovertebral junction; image analysis; lateral mass collapse; occipital condyle; periodontoid lesion; rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATLANTOAXIAL JOINT; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL JOINT; ATLAS; AXIS; BIOMECHANICS; BONE DEFORMATION; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER MODEL; CRANIOVERTEBRAL JUNCTION; FEMALE; FLEXOR REFLEX; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; JOINT INSTABILITY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; OCCIPITAL BONE; ODONTOID PROCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SKULL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VERTEBRA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT; ATLANTO-OCCIPITAL JOINT; BIOMECHANICS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR;

EID: 78149281735     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181e6d578     Document Type: Article

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