(ii) Cervical myelopathy and its management

Current Orthopaedics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 7-12

  Kokubun, S ^a   Sato, T ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; ORTHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION;

EID: 0031912220     PISSN: 02680890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0268-0890(98)90002-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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