Surgical outcome of drop foot caused by degenerative lumbar diseases

Spine

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Aono, Hiroyuki ^a   Iwasaki, Motoki ^b   Ohwada, Tetsuo ^c   Okuda, Shinya ^d   Hosono, Noboru ^a   Fuji, Takeshi ^a   Yoshikawa, Hideki ^b  

^a OSAKA KOSEI NENKIN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KANSAI ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d OSAKA ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Degenerative lumbar disease; Drop foot; Manual muscle test; Tibialis anterior

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; LEG PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PERONEUS NERVE PARALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE SURGERY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOM; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANKLE JOINT; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL STENOSIS; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247190713     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000259922.82413.72     Document Type: Article

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