Surgical decompression for cervical spondylotic myelopathy: Correlation between operative outcomes and MRI of the spinal cord

Orthopedics

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1087-1091

  Papadopoulos, Charalambos A ^a,c   Katonis, Pavlos ^a   Papagelopoulos, Panayiotis J ^a   Karampekios, Spyridon ^b   Hadjipavlou, Alexander G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 6344278837     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/0147-7447-20041001-19     Document Type: Article

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