Surgical treatment of spasticity by selective posterior rhizotomy: 30 years experience

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 543-546

  Salame, Khalil ^a,b   Ouaknine, Georges E R ^a,b   Rochkind, Semion ^a,b   Constantini, Shlomo ^a,b   Razon, Nissim ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Rhizotomy; Spasticity; Surgical treament

Indexed keywords

NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT TREATMENT;

NEUROLOGIC DISORDERS;

NEUROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANUS SPHINCTER DISORDER; ARM; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RHIZOTOMY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; LEG; LEG MUSCLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE SPASM; NEUROGENIC BLADDER; PATIENT CARE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SPASTICITY; SPEECH; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; URINE INCONTINENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHIZOTOMY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0041565048     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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