Rheumatoid arthritis of the cervical spine: Clinical considerations

Bulletin of the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 136-148

  Wasserman, Bradley R ^a   Moskovich, Ronald ^b   Razi, Afshin E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; FIBRIN; GROWTH FACTOR; METALLOPROTEINASE;

AMNESIA; ANATOMY; ANTERIOR ATLANTOAXIAL SUBLUXATION; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BROWN SEQUARD SYNDROME; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; CRANIAL SETTLING; DIPLOPIA; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HYALINE CARTILAGE; JOINT INSTABILITY; MECHANICAL COMPRESSION; MORTALITY; MYELOGRAPHY; NECK PAIN; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL PAIN; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREVALENCE; RANGE OF MOTION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE FUSION; SUBLUXATION; SYNOVIOCYTE; SYNOVITIS; TINNITUS; URINE INCONTINENCE; URINE RETENTION; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY; VERTIGO; VISUAL DISORDER;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISLOCATIONS; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79960463524     PISSN: 19369719     EISSN: 19369727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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