Quantitative assessment of surgical decompression of the cervical spine with cine phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging

Neurosurgery

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 791-796

  Tominaga, Teiji ^a   Watabe, Noriaki ^b   Takahashi, Toshiyuki ^a   Shimizu, Hiroaki ^a   Yoshimoto, Takashi ^b   Cooper, Paul R ^c   Sonntag, Volker K H ^c   Haid, Regis ^c   Zee, Chi Shing ^c  

^a KOHNAN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid flow; Cervical spondylosis; Decompression surgery; Myelopathy; Phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ARTICLE; BONE MALFORMATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CERVICAL SPINE; CINE PHASE CONTRAST MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LAMINOPLASTY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE DISEASE; SPONDYLOSIS; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; SPINAL CORD DISEASES;

EID: 0036556296     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200204000-00020     Document Type: Article

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