Cervical laminectomy vs laminoplasty: Is there a difference in outcome and postoperative pain?

Neurosurgery

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 965-970

  Nurboja, Besnik ^a   Kachramanoglou, Carolina ^a   Choi, David ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cervical laminectomy; Cervical laminoplasty; Neck pain; Quality of life; Sagittal alignment

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAMINECTOMY; LAMINOPLASTY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MYELORADICULOPATHY; NECK PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGED; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KYPHOSIS; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADICULOPATHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84858746189     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31823cf16b     Document Type: Article

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