Analysis of cervical spine curvature in patients with cervical spondylosis

Neurosurgery

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1988, Pages 827-836

  Batzdorf, Ulrich ^a   Batzdorff, Alfred ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Surgery ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical spine curvature; Laminectomy; Myelopathy; Spondylosis

Indexed keywords

CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; MYELOGRAPHY; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE CURVATURE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KYPHOSIS; LAMINECTOMY; LORDOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGE; SPINAL OSTEOPHYTOSIS;

EID: 0023899846     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: 15244040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/00006123-198805000-00004     Document Type: Article

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