A prospective, randomized trial comparing expansile cervical laminoplasty and cervical laminectomy and fusion for multilevel cervical myelopathy

Clinical Neurosurgery

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 264-276

  Manzano, Glen R ^a   Casella, Gizelda ^a   Wang, Michael Y ^a   Vanni, Steven ^a   Levi, Allan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical; Fusion; Laminoplasty; Myelopathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPONDYLOTIC MYELOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JAPANESE ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION SCORE; LAMINECTOMY; LAMINOPLASTY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISABILITY INDEX; NORTH AMERICAN; NURICK (GRADE); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT FORM 36; SPINE FUSION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; CERVICAL LAMINECTOMY AND FUSION; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECOMPRESSION; EXPANSILE CERVICAL LAMINOPLASTY; HEMATOMA; INFECTION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE ASSESSMENT; NURICK SCORE; PARALYSIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PILOT STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RANGE OF MOTION; SCREW LOOSENING; SURGEON; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; METHODOLOGY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; SPONDYLOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SPINAL FUSION; SPONDYLOSIS;

EID: 84861142465     PISSN: 00694827     EISSN: 0148396X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3182305669     Document Type: Article

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