Dropped head deformity due to cervical myopathy: Surgical treatment outcomes and complications spanning twenty years

Spine

Volumn 33, Issue 20, 2008, Pages

  Gerling, Michael C ^a   Bohlman, Henry H ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical myopathy; Complications; Dropped head deformity; Fusion; Outcomes; Surgical

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; KYPHOSIS; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MOBILIZATION; MYOPATHY; PAIN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SHOULDER; SPINE FUSION; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC SPINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WALKING AID; WEAKNESS; BODY POSTURE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; VERTEBRA;

AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KYPHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; PAIN; POSTURE; SPINAL FUSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 55449111428     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31817f1f8b     Document Type: Article

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