Predictors of neurologic recovery in acute central cervical cord injury with only upper extremity impairment

Spine

Volumn 27, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 1652-1658

  Ishida, Yoichiro ^a   Tominaga, Toshikatsu ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Follow up studies; Neurologic examination; Prognosis; Regression analysis; Risk factors; Spinal cord injuries

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SENSATION; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; ACUTE DISEASE; ARM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVALESCENCE; EDEMA; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; IMMOBILIZATION; INNERVATION; MIDDLE AGED; NECK INJURY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, STEROIDAL; EDEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGE; NECK INJURIES; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT;

EID: 0036682382     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-200208010-00011     Document Type: Article

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