These results suggest that CPPD deposition disease frequently involves the cervical spine. Although such calcification often remains asymptomatic, it may be associated with attacks of acute neck pain with segmentary stiffness, fever, and an increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate, sometimes mimicking PMR and/or GCA or neurological symptoms.
The crowned dens syndrome as a cause of neck pain: clinical and computed tomography study in patients with calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate deposition disease / Salaffi, Fausto; Carotti, M; Guglielmi, G; Passarini, G; Grassi, Walter. - In: CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RHEUMATOLOGY. - ISSN 0392-856X. - 26(6):(2008), pp. 1040-1046.
The crowned dens syndrome as a cause of neck pain: clinical and computed tomography study in patients with calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate deposition disease
SALAFFI, FAUSTO;Carotti M;GRASSI, Walter
2008-01-01
Abstract
These results suggest that CPPD deposition disease frequently involves the cervical spine. Although such calcification often remains asymptomatic, it may be associated with attacks of acute neck pain with segmentary stiffness, fever, and an increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate, sometimes mimicking PMR and/or GCA or neurological symptoms.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
