Calcification of the alar ligament of the cervical spine in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis

Calcification of the alar ligament is rare. It usually develops as a result of traumatic injury and is especially prominent in the elderly. CT scanning is the gold standard of the diagnosis. We report a case of a calcification of the transverse and alar ligament in a patient with rheumatoid arthriti...

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Autores principales: Soubai, Rahma Boussaadani, Tahiri, Latifa, Abourazzak, Fatima Zahra, Tizniti, Siham, Harzy, Taoufik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3542788/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23330032
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author Soubai, Rahma Boussaadani
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Tizniti, Siham
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spelling pubmed-35427882013-01-17 Calcification of the alar ligament of the cervical spine in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis Soubai, Rahma Boussaadani Tahiri, Latifa Abourazzak, Fatima Zahra Tizniti, Siham Harzy, Taoufik Pan Afr Med J Case Report Calcification of the alar ligament is rare. It usually develops as a result of traumatic injury and is especially prominent in the elderly. CT scanning is the gold standard of the diagnosis. We report a case of a calcification of the transverse and alar ligament in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2012-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC3542788/ /pubmed/23330032 Text en © Rahma Boussaadani Soubai et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Calcification of the alar ligament of the cervical spine in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis
title_full Calcification of the alar ligament of the cervical spine in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis
title_fullStr Calcification of the alar ligament of the cervical spine in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis
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title_short Calcification of the alar ligament of the cervical spine in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis
title_sort calcification of the alar ligament of the cervical spine in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23330032
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