Intraoperative ultrasonographic evaluation of posterior decompression via laminoplasty in patients with cervical ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament: Correlation with 2-year follow-up results - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 47-51

  Seichi, Atsushi ^a   Chikuda, Hirotaka ^b   Kimura, Atsushi ^a   Takeshita, Katsushi ^b   Sugita, Shurei ^b   Hoshino, Yuichi ^a   Nakamura, Kozo ^b  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervical spine; Laminoplasty; Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAMINOPLASTY; LIGAMENT CALCINOSIS; MALE; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; POSTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSSIFICATION OF POSTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 77954265343     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.3.SPINE09680     Document Type: Article

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