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Case Reports in Emergency Medicine
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 170956, 2 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/170956
Case Report
Dyspnea Caused by Atlantoaxial Subluxation in a Patient with Rheumatoid Arthritis
1Emergency Department, Buddhist Tzu Chi Dalin General Hospital, no. 2, Minsheng Road, Dalin Township, Chiayi County 622, Taiwan
2Division of Emergency Medicine, Keelung Hospital, Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Keelung 201, Taiwan
3School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien 970, Taiwan
Received 5 October 2011; Accepted 26 October 2011
Academic Editors: K. Jani and O. Kose
Copyright © 2012 Hsin-Yi Lin et al. This is an open access article distributed under 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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