Surgical outcome of thoracic myelopathy secondary to ossification of ligamentum flavum

Joint Bone Spine

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 600-605

  Park, Byung Chul ^a   Min, Woo Kie ^a   Oh, Chang Wug ^a   Jeon, In Ho ^a   Kim, Shin Yoon ^a   Kyung, Hee Soo ^a   Oh, Soo Hoon ^a  

^a Kyungpook National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Laminectomy; Ossification of the ligament flavum; Thoracic myelopathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANUS DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAIT; HUMAN; JAPANESE ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION; LAMINECTOMY; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM OSSIFICATION; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSSIFICATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; SPASTICITY; SPHINCTER DYSFUNTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; THORACIC SPINE; WALKING DIFFICULTY; WEAKNESS;

ADULT; AGED; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSSIFICATION, HETEROTOPIC; PARAPARESIS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDERS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36849067897     PISSN: 1297319X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbspin.2007.01.033     Document Type: Article

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