Surgical treatment for ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament and the yellow ligament in the thoracic and cervico-thoracic spine

Spinal Cord

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 561-566

  Ido, Kazuhiro ^a,c   Shimizu, Katsuji ^b   Iida, Hirokazu ^a   Nakamura, Takashi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPANESE RED CROSS WAKAYAMA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervico thoracic spine; Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament; Ossification of the yellow ligament; Surgery; Thoracic spine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIGAMENT CALCINOSIS; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM; MALE; MYELOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SYMPTOM; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031829630     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.sc.3100612     Document Type: Article

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