Cervical Myelopathy
Development of a self administered questionnaire to screen patients for cervical myelopathy
... the myelopathy group, 62 patients (48 men, 14 women) with a diagnosis of cer- vical myelopathy who underwent surgery at Fukushima Medical University Hospital from February 2006 to Sep- tember 2008 were ...
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Cervical myelopathy associated with intracranial dural arteriovenous fistula: MR findings before and after treatment
... associated cervical myelopathy, the MR find- ings included cervical cord enlargement and abnormal hyperintensity on the long-TR images within the medulla and cervical ...
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The effect of dural release on extended laminoplasty for the treatment of multi level cervical myelopathy
... show cervical lordosis that can be a good way to measure the distance of retroposition of the spinal cord after cervical myelop- athy after posterior extended ...of cervical myelopathy, but ...
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Serum oxidative stress influences neurological recovery after surgery to treat acutely worsening symptoms of compression myelopathy: a cross sectional human study
... with cervical compression myelopathy in this ...included cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) and cervical ossification of longitudinal ligament ...(OPLL). Cervical ...
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Original Article Efficacy and safety between the anterior and posterior surgery in treating the ossification of posterior cervicallongitudinal ligament (OPLL): a meta-analysis
... posterior cervical longi- tudinal ligament (OPLL) is an abnormal calcifi- cation of the posterior longitudinal ligament which is located in the cervical ...common cervical myelopathy and ...
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Multiple neck operations in a patient with severe motor tics because of Tourette’s syndrome: a case report
... On admission to our hospital, our patient was able to walk independently but his gait was slow and un- steady. His muscle strength in the lower limbs was normal, but his deltoid, biceps and triceps muscles were somewhat ...
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A study of the prognostic factors in cervical spondylotic myelopathy
... Advances in spinal imaging and accumulation of clinical experience have provided some clues as to indications and timing of surgery for cervical myelopathy. When surgery is properly carried out long term ...
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Neurological Recovery in Conservatively Managed Severe Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy: Case Report
... One mechanism for neck pain spreading down the arm and cervical myelopathy is cord oedema and the sensitisation of neural tissues (8) . Cord oedema with degenerated stenosis of the spine aggravates neural ...
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Schooling Performance Outcomes after Elective Tonsillectomy in Children: A Review Article
... for cervical myelopathy seems to be effective for neurological improvement even in elderly patients, provided that the symptom duration is less than 12 months and the transverse area of the spinal cord at ...
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A novel revision surgery for treatment of cervical ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament after initial posterior surgery: preliminary clinical investigation of anterior controllable antidisplacement and fusion
... to cervical myelopathy ...progressive myelopathy require surgical treatment [2, ...treating cervical OPLL have been established involving anterior and posterior ...the cervical spinal ...
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A Study of the Clinical Spectrum and Functional Outcome of Patients with Nontraumatic Myelopathy.
... nontraumatic myelopathy, 59 patients received medical management and 41 patients underwent ...compressive myelopathy. 11 % of the nontraumatic myelopathy patients who had compressive ...
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Clinical Outcome after Laminectomy without Fusion for Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy
... When deciding which treatment to use, the surgeon always needs to consider the different pathogeneses that can lead to CSM. Considering the pathophysiology of stenosis, it has been stated that patients with absolute cer- ...
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Clinical report of cervical arthroplasty in management of spondylotic myelopathy in Chinese
... above, cervical arthroplasty has been an alternative to cervical anterior discectomy with ...Bryan cervical disc prosthesis among chinese patients has been reported, and no systemic radiographic ...
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Dorsal laminectomy for treatment of cervical vertebral stenotic myelopathy in an alpaca
... der spinous processes and relatively minimal muscula- ture, compared with an affected adult horse. If the lesion had been at the C2-C3 articulation, the more substantial dorsal aspect to C2 and the insertion of the ...
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Spinal cord swelling in patients with cervical compression myelopathy
... with cervical spondylotic myelopathy who underwent surgery between April 2007 and March 2017 were divided into SCECS and non-SCECS groups with SCECS defined as follows: (1) intramedullary signal intensity ...
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Cervical Spine Involvement in Larsen’s Syndrome: A Case Illustration
... specifically cervical anomalies which, left untreated, may lead to cord compression and neurologic ...the cervical spine and ...including cervical kyphosis, atlantoaxial instability, or progressive ...
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Predictive factors of symptomatic lumbar canal stenosis in patients after surgery for cervical spondylotic myelopathy
... Patients were followed up for 7.3 ± 4.1 years. There were 39 patients (12.3%) with LCS after cervical surgery. Twenty- two were males and 17 were females. Of the 39 patients, 7 patients were detected before ...
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Effect of Exercise Program on the Rehabilitation of Patients with Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy
... Static factors include congenital spinal canal stenosis (<13 mm anterior-posterior diameter), disc herniation, oso- phyte formation in the vertebral bodies, degenerative osteophytosis of the uncovertebral and facet ...
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Diffusion Tensor Imaging Correlates with the Clinical Assessment of Disease Severity in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy and Predicts Outcome following Surgery
... severe myelopathy symptoms, progressive neurologic deterioration, se- vere cord compression, and spinal ...minimal myelopathy on neurologic examination, or if they have moderate canal steno- sis and mild ...
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Modic changes in the cervical endplate of patients suffering from cervical spondylotic myelopathy
... the cervical end- plate are associated with cervical intervertebral disc degeneration, which is likely to be one of the late mani- festations of intervertebral disc ...spondylosis, cervical curvature ...
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