Two-staged decompression for thoracic paraparesis due to the combined ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament and the ligamentum flavum: A case report

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 175-177

  Hioki, Akira ^a   Miyamoto, Kei ^a   Hosoe, Hideo ^a   Shimizu, Katsuji ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Decompression; Ossification of the ligamentum flavum (OYL); Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL); Surgical treatment; Thoracic myelopathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FALLING; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; LAMINOPLASTY; LIGAMENT CALCINOSIS; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPLEGIA; PARESTHESIA; POSTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITTING; SPASTIC PARESIS; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; STANDING; SYMPTOM; THORACIC SPINE; URINE INCONTINENCE; WALKING;

DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM; MIDDLE AGED; OSSIFICATION OF POSTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT; OSSIFICATION, HETEROTOPIC; PARAPARESIS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; THORAX;

EID: 38649084705     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-007-0336-5     Document Type: Article

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