Clinical and radiological analysis of ossification of the anterior longitudinal ligament causing dysphagia and hoarseness

Neurosurgery

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 913-918

  Song, Joonsuk ^a   Mizuno, Junichi ^a   Nakagawa, Hiroshi ^a  

^a AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Dysphagia; Ossification of the anterior longitudinal ligament; Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; LIGAMENT CALCINOSIS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THICKNESS; VERTEBRA BODY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HOARSENESS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSSIFICATION, HETEROTOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33646834267     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000209936.46946.99     Document Type: Review

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