False localizing signs in upper cervical spinal cord compression

Neurosurgery

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 445-449

  Sonstein, William J ^a   LaSala, Patrick A ^a   Michelsen, W Jost ^a   Onesti, Stephen T ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical spine; Hand dysfunction; Myelopathy; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DYSESTHESIA; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NECK PAIN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION;

AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FINGERS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAND; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL DISEASES;

EID: 0030024680     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199603000-00004     Document Type: Article

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