Journal article
Nonrheumatoid Cranial Settling
Spine (Philadelphia, Pa. 1976), Vol.18(16), pp.2525-2527
12/1993
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199312000-00025
PMID: 8303459
Abstract
Cranial settling is a condition in which erosive changes of the atlantal lateral masses result in downward telescoping of the atlas onto the axis body, anterior displacement of the atlantal posterior arch, and subsequent ventral and dorsal cervicomedullary compression. Cranial settling is described in conjunction with rheumatoid basilar invagination and atlanto-axial instability, possibly representing the most life-threatening abnormality associated with rheumatoid arthritis. The authors describe a case of symptomatic cranial settling in a nonrheumatoid patient with chronic, severe, spasmodic torticollis resulting in erosive changes in the occipito-atlanto-axial complex.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Nonrheumatoid Cranial Settling
- Creators
- Timothy RykenArnold H Menezes
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Spine (Philadelphia, Pa. 1976), Vol.18(16), pp.2525-2527
- DOI
- 10.1097/00007632-199312000-00025
- PMID
- 8303459
- NLM abbreviation
- Spine (Phila Pa 1976)
- ISSN
- 0362-2436
- eISSN
- 1528-1159
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/1993
- Academic Unit
- Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Neurosurgery; Otolaryngology
- Record Identifier
- 9984040561402771
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