Is there a benefit to operating on patients (bedridden or in wheelchairs) with advanced stage cervical spondylotic myelopathy?

European Spine Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 699-705

  Scardino, Fabrizio Borges ^a   Rocha, Leonardo Poubel ^b   Barcelos, Alécio Cristino Evangelista Santos ^b   Rotta, José Marcus ^b   Botelho, Ricardo Vieira ^b  

^a HOSPITAL DO SERVIDOR PÚBLICO ESTADUAL DE SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Prognosis; Spinal cord compression; Spondylosis; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LAMINECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; SPINE FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; KYPHOSIS; LAMINECTOMY; LORDOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL FUSION; SPONDYLOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHEELCHAIRS;

EID: 77954496067     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-009-1267-3     Document Type: Article

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