Dorsal surgery for myelopathy and myeloradiculopathy

Neurosurgery

Volumn 60, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Wiggins, Gregory C ^a   Shaffrey, Christopher I ^b  

^a DAVID GRANT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fusion; Laminectomy; Laminoplasty; Myelopathy; Myeloradiculopathy; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; BONE SCREW; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KYPHOSIS; LAMINECTOMY; LAMINOPLASTY; MYELORADICULOPATHY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINE INSTABILITY; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SURGEON; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADICULOPATHY; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL ROOT; SPINE FUSION;

HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADICULOPATHY; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS;

EID: 33846135455     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000215379.90537.0B     Document Type: Review

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