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  • Title: Cervical spine involvement in rheumatoid arthritis.
    Author: Kankaanpää U, Santavirta S.
    Journal: Ann Chir Gynaecol Suppl; 1985; 198():117-21. PubMed ID: 3863509.
    Abstract:
    Cervical spine involvement in rheumatoid patients is common, the clinical symptoms varying from the asymptomatic state to severe occipito-cervical pain and various neurological syndromes. Atlanto-axial subluxation is the most common deformity and it should be operated on if it causes medullary compression signs or severe occipito-cervical headache and has an instability amplitude greater than 9 mm. Experience based on 155 cases of operatively treated rheumatoid cervical spine instabilities and deformities is described and discussed.
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