Prognosis of conservatively treated patients with Pott's paraplegia: Logistic regression analysis

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 866-868

  Kalita, J ^a   Misra, U K ^a   Mandal, S K ^b   Srivastava, M ^b  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ECHOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SPASTICITY; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PARAPLEGIA; PROGNOSIS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TUBERCULOSIS, SPINAL;

EID: 20444413848     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2004.037051     Document Type: Article

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