Disproportion theory of the cervical spine and spinal cord in patients with juvenile cervical flexion myelopathy: A study comparing cervical magnetic resonance images with those of normal controls

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 421-430

  Kohno, Michihiro ^a   Takahashi, Hiroshi ^a   Yagishita, Akira ^a   Tanabe, Hitoshi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN NEUROLOGICAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervical flexion myelopathy; Cervical spine and spinal cord shapes; Etiology; Juvenile muscular atrophy of unilateral upper extremity; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; THEORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY HEIGHT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KYPHOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; SEX FACTORS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0032213402     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(97)00451-5     Document Type: Article

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