Enlargement of cervical spinal cord correlates with improvement of motor function in upper extremities after laminoplasty for cervical myelopathy

Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 194-198

  Takahashi, Yoshimasa ^a   Narusawa, Ken'ichiro ^a   Shimizu, Kenji ^a   Hijioka, Akihiko ^b   Nakamura, Toshitaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b Department of Internal Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAMINOPLASTY; LEG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MYELOGRAPHY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSATION; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; LAMINECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PROGNOSIS; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; PROGNOSIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 33746507465     PISSN: 15360652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.bsd.0000193821.50146.78     Document Type: Article

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