Clinical value of increased MR signal intensity due to cervicarthrosic myelopathy;Valeur de l'hypersignal a l'IRM dans les myelopathies cervicarthrosiques

Neurochirurgie

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 285-290

  Okais, N ^a   Moussa, R ^a,b   Hage, P ^a  

^a SAINT JOSEPH UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER SAINTE ANNE   (France)

Author keywords

cervical spondylotic myelopathy; magnetic resonance imaging; outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; EVALUATION STUDIES; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL OSTEOPHYTOSIS;

EID: 0030810076     PISSN: 00283770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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