Clinical features and surgical outcomes of cervical myelopathy in the elderly

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 444, Issue , 2006, Pages 140-145

  Nagashima, Hideki ^a   Morio, Yasuo ^b   Yamashita, Hideki ^a   Yamane, Koji ^a   Teshima, Ryota ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Orthopaedic Surgery   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGE; CERVICAL SPINE; CONVALESCENCE; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE DISEASE; TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL DISEASES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645989195     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000201156.21701.86     Document Type: Article

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