Simultaneous cervical diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis and ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament resulting in dysphagia or myelopathy in two geriatric North Americans

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 427-431

  Epstein, Nancy E ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical; DISH; Dysphagia; Myelopathy; OPLL

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANKYLOSING HYPEROSTOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPHAGIA; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; LIGAMENT CALCINOSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; HYPEROSTOSIS, DIFFUSE IDIOPATHIC SKELETAL; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; OSSIFICATION OF POSTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034085684     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(00)00227-5     Document Type: Article

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