Traumatic thoracic ASIA A examinations and potential for clinical trials

Spine

Volumn 34, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 2525-2529

  Harrop, James S ^a   Maltenfort, Mitchell Gil ^a   Geisler, Fred H ^b   Coleman, William ^c   Jones, Linda A T ^d   Wirth, Edward ^e   Vaccaro, Alexander ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Illinois Neuro Spine Center   (United States)

^c WPC Math   (United States)

^d Geron Corporation   (United States)

^e GERON CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

ASIA; Recovery; Sensation; Spinal cord injury; Thoracic; Thoracolumbar

Indexed keywords

GANGLIOSIDE GM1; PLACEBO;

AMERICAN SPINAL INJURY ASSOCIATION EXAMINATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DATA BASE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONITOR; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TOUCH;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOUCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 70449493209     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181bd1402     Document Type: Article

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