Macfarlane J D, Minhas A, Han K S, Boekhout M
Department of Rheumatology and Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Leiden, Netherlands.
Eur Spine J. 1995;4(6):362-5. doi: 10.1007/BF00300299.
A patient undergoing regular haemodialysis for chronic renal insufficiency developed neck pain followed by progressive spinal cord compression due to subluxation at the level C3-4. Decompression, laminectomy and osteosynthesis led to an almost complete recovery. A review of all the histological specimens suggested that hyperparathyroidism and not amyloidosis caused the vertebral destruction.
