Neurological recovery is impaired by concurrent but not by asymptomatic pre-existing spinal cord compression after traumatic spinal cord injury

Spine

Volumn 37, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 1448-1455

  Kubota, Kensuke ^a   Saiwai, Hirokazu ^a   Kumamaru, Hiromi ^a   Kobayakawa, Kazu ^a   Maeda, Takeshi ^b   Matsumoto, Yoshihiro ^a   Harimaya, Katsumi ^a   Iwamoto, Yukihide ^a   Okada, Seiji ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SPINAL INJURIES CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

concurrent spinal cord compression; neovascularization; neurological recovery; spinal cord blood flow; subclinical pre existing canal stenosis; surgical decompression; traumatic spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GENE; HEMODYNAMICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD BLOOD FLOW; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TRAUMATIC SPINAL CORD INJURUY; UPREGULATION; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ANGIOPOIETIN-2; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GENE EXPRESSION; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL STENOSIS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 84864459090     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31824ffda5     Document Type: Article

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