Predictors of outcome of surgery for cervical compressive myelopathy: Retrospective analysis and prospective study

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 231-238

  Park, Young Su ^a   Nakase, Hiroyuki ^a   Kawaguchi, Shoichiro ^a   Sakaki, Toshisuke ^a   Nikaido, Yuji ^b   Morimoto, Tetsuya ^c  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MINAMI OSAKA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c OSAKA POLICE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervical compressive myelopathy; Predictive factor; Recovery rate; Surgical result

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646911740     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.46.231     Document Type: Article

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