Characteristics of patients
| Occipital neuralgia (n=17) |
Myelopathy (n=14) | Occipital neuralgia and myelopathy (n=24) | |
| Median age (years, range) | 63 (44–76) | 66 (48–81) | 71 (42–84) |
| Median duration of RA (years, range) | 17 (2–56) | 17 (5–53) | 16 (3–39) |
| IgM rheumatoid factor positive (No (%)) | 15 (88) | 14 (100) | 19 (79) |
| Erosive (%) | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Nodules (No (%)) | 7 (41) | 6 (43) | 7 (29) |
| Corticosteroid use (No (%)) | 9 (53) | 7 (50) | 14 (58) |
| Ranawat class (neural assessment) at admission | |||
| I | 17 | 0 | 1 |
| II | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| IIIA | 0 | 8 | 13 |
| IIIB | 0 | 4 | 2 |