Middle-term results of a prospective comparative study of anterior decompression with fusion and posterior decompression with laminoplasty for the treatment of cervical spondylotic myelopathy

Spine

Volumn 36, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 1940-1947

  Hirai, Takashi ^a   Okawa, Atsushi ^a   Arai, Yoshiyasu ^a   Takahashi, Makoto ^a   Kawabata, Shigenori ^a   Kato, Tsuyoshi ^a   Enomoto, Mitsuhiro ^a   Tomizawa, Shoji ^a   Sakai, Kenichiro ^a   Torigoe, Ichiro ^a   Shinomiya, Kenichi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

anterior decompression and fusion; cervical spondylotic myelopathy; laminoplasty; postoperative anterior compression; prospective comparative study; surgical approach

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BLADDER FUNCTION; BLEEDING; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; CERVICAL SPONDYLOTIC MYELOPATHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONVALESCENCE; DYSPHASIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KYPHOSIS; LAMINOPLASTY; LARYNX EDEMA; LEG MOVEMENT; LORDOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MERALGIA PARESTHETICA; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RANGE OF MOTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSATION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE FUSION; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL FUSION; SPONDYLOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80054944897     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181feeeb2     Document Type: Article

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