Ventral versus dorsal decompression for cervical spondylotic myelopathy: Surgeons' assessment of eligibility for randomization in a proposed randomized controlled trial: Results of a survey of the Cervical Spine Research Society

Spine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 429-436

  Ghogawala, Zoher ^a   Coumans, Jean Valery ^a   Benzel, Edward C ^a   Stabile, Lauren M ^a   Barker II, Fred G ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical spondylotic myelopathy; Clinical trial design; Survey

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KYPHOSIS; LIGAMENT CALCINOSIS; PATIENT INFORMATION; POSTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGEON; SURGICAL APPROACH; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DATA COLLECTION; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIANS; PRONE POSITION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 33847077133     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000255068.94058.8a     Document Type: Article

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