Quantitative prediction of spinal cord drift after cervical laminectomy and arthrodesis

Spine

Volumn 31, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 1795-1798

  Lee, Joon Y ^a,e   Sharan, Ashwini ^b   Baron, Eli M ^c   Lim, Moe R ^d   Grossman, Eric ^b   Albert, Todd J ^b   Vaccaro, Alexander R ^b   Hilibrand, Alan S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e Division of Urologic Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical laminectomy; Cervical lordosis; Laminoplasty; Spinal cord drift

Indexed keywords

ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LAMINECTOMY; LORDOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD DRIFT;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; COHORT STUDIES; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYELOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL FUSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33746053201     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000225992.26154.d0     Document Type: Article

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