ARTHRITIS OF THE CERVICAL SPINE

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Investigation in recent years has established the fact that radiculitis of arthritic origin, or funiculitis (Sicard's1terminology), is a common manifestation of vertebral arthritis of the cervical as well as the thoracic, lumbar and sacral spinal segments. Symptoms directly referable to the local disease are usually minimal and frequently absent. In contrast, the magnitude of the nerve root symptoms and the remoteness of their distribution often give rise to such varied, illusive and bizarre clinical pictures that it is not unusual to observe failures to recognize the underlying pathologic process. Consequently, such symptoms are not infrequently classified as clinical entities such as neuritis and neuralgia. That the pain may simulate that arising from visceral disease has been stressed by Oppenheim.2In point, a case history compatible with angina pectoris will be described subsequently. Contributing to the confusion in diagnosis is the fact that the motor and sympathetic as

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