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Neurosurgical management of the rheumatoid cervical spine
The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, New York
|May 1, 1994
Abstract:
Rheumatoid arthritis affects the cervical spine in up to 88% of patients with seropositive disease. Neurologic sequelae result either from direct compression by a rheumatoid pannus or from spinal subluxations. Indications for and techniques of neurosurgical intervention are discussed.