Clinical results of surgery for thoracic myelopathy caused by ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament: Operative indication of posterior decompression with instrumented fusion

Spine

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 1452-1460

  Yamazaki, Masashi ^a   Mochizuki, Makondo ^a   Ikeda, Yoshikazu ^a   Sodeyama, Tomonori ^a   Okawa, Akihiko ^a   Koda, Masao ^a   Moriya, Hideshige ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Instrumentation; Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament; Paraparesis; Posterior decompression and fusion; Thoracic myelopathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DETERIORATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYDROTHORAX; LAMINECTOMY; LAMINOPLASTY; LIGAMENT CALCINOSIS; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PARALYSIS; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SPINE FUSION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERNAL FIXATORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM; OSSIFICATION OF POSTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT; PARALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; SPINAL FUSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 33745064248     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000220834.22131.fb     Document Type: Article

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