A Case of Acute Neck Pain: The Crowned Dens Syndrome

Crowned dens syndrome (CDS) is a relatively uncommon presentation of calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) deposition disease that manifests as acute attacks of neck pain with fever, neck rigidity and elevated inflammatory markers related to radiodense deposits of CPPD in ligaments around the odont...

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Autores principales: Ojemolon, Pius E, Edigin, Ehizogie, Annapureddy, Narender, Manadan, Augustine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7470667/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32905477
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9555
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author Ojemolon, Pius E
Edigin, Ehizogie
Annapureddy, Narender
Manadan, Augustine
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description Crowned dens syndrome (CDS) is a relatively uncommon presentation of calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) deposition disease that manifests as acute attacks of neck pain with fever, neck rigidity and elevated inflammatory markers related to radiodense deposits of CPPD in ligaments around the odontoid process. We present a case of CDS.
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spelling pubmed-74706672020-09-04 A Case of Acute Neck Pain: The Crowned Dens Syndrome Ojemolon, Pius E Edigin, Ehizogie Annapureddy, Narender Manadan, Augustine Cureus Internal Medicine Crowned dens syndrome (CDS) is a relatively uncommon presentation of calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) deposition disease that manifests as acute attacks of neck pain with fever, neck rigidity and elevated inflammatory markers related to radiodense deposits of CPPD in ligaments around the odontoid process. We present a case of CDS. Cureus 2020-08-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7470667/ /pubmed/32905477 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9555 Text en Copyright © 2020, Ojemolon et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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Ojemolon, Pius E
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Annapureddy, Narender
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7470667/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9555
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