Diffusion tensor imaging correlates with the clinical assessment of disease severity in cervical spondylotic myelopathy and predicts outcome following surgery

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 471-478

  Jones, Jesse G A ^a   Cen, S Y ^b   Lebel, R M ^c   Hsieh, P C ^a   Law, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPONDYLOTIC MYELOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MODIFIED JAPANESE ORTHOPEDIC ASSOCIATION SCORE; NECK DISABILITY INDEX; NURICK SCORE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHORT FORM 36; SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPONDYLOSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84876178137     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A3199     Document Type: Article

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