Analysis of five specific scores for cervical spondylogenic myelopathy

European Spine Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2096-2103

  Vitzthum, Hans Ekkehart ^a   Dalitz, Kristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cervical myelopathy; Outcome; Postoperative validation; Preoperative validation; Recovery rate; Scores

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPONDYLOGENIC MYELOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; NECK PAIN; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARESTHESIA; RADICULOPATHY; REFLEX, ABNORMAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSATION DISORDERS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL OSTEOPHYTOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37249063773     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-007-0512-x     Document Type: Article

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