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The Rheumatoid Cervical Spine

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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a progressive, debilitating disease with serious physical, psychological and economic consequences [24, 36]. RA afflicts about 1% of world population, more than 2.9 million Europeans and over two million patients in the United States. The clinical course of RA fluctuates and prognosis is unpredictable [13, 14]. Seventy percent of patients with recent onset of RA show evidence of radiographic changes within 3 years [35]. Fifty percent of RA patients are work-disabled within 10 years of disease onset [1, 30, 37].

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Klezl, Z., Swamy, G.N., Stulik, J. (2010). The Rheumatoid Cervical Spine. In: Bentley, G. (eds) European Instructional Lectures. European Instructional Lectures, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11832-6_10

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