Clinical significance of redundant nerve roots of the cauda equina in lumbar spinal stenosis

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 14-18

  Min, Jun Hong ^a   Jang, Jee Soo ^a   Lee, Sang Ho ^a  

^a Gimpo Airport Wooridul Spine Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Redundant nerve root; Spinal stenosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUDA EQUINA; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPANESE ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR SPINAL STENOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NERVE ROOT LESION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROBATION; REDUNDANT NERVE ROOT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; SYMPTOM; VERTEBRAL CANAL; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUDA EQUINA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL STENOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37249028231     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2007.08.005     Document Type: Article

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