Respiratory dysfunction in patients with chronic-onset cervical myelopathy

Spine

Volumn 27, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 2234-2239

  Ishibe, Tatsuya ^a   Takahashi, Shinobu ^a,b  

^a Nagahama City Hospital   (Japan)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervical myelopathy; Laminoplasty; Magnetic resonance imaging; Respiratory dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LAMINOPLASTY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SPIROMETRY; VITAL CAPACITY;

CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECK; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OSSIFICATION OF POSTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; SPINAL OSTEOPHYTOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 0037109031     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-200210150-00010     Document Type: Article

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