Posterior longitudinal ligament
Posterior longitudinal ligament resection in anterior cervical discectomy
... Background: The concept of generous decompression, including resection of the posterior longitudinal ligament (PLL) and even partial bilateral uncovertebral joint resection, has been adopted by some ...
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Calcification of the intervertebral disc and ossification of posterior longitudinal ligament in children
... the posterior longitudinal ligament, Pediatric, Cervical spine Background Calcification of intervertebral disc in children is ...the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) mainly ...
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Runx2 Haploinsufficiency Ameliorates the Development of Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament
... the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament (OPLL) is a disease that is characterized by the ectopic calcification of the ligament; however, the pathogenesis of OPLL remains to be ...the ...
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IL17RC affects the predisposition to thoracic ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament
... Peng Wang 1,2 , Xiaoguang Liu 3 , Xiao Liu 3 , Chao Kong 1,2 , Ze Teng 4 , Yunlong Ma 3 , Lei Yong 3 , Chen Liang 3 , Guanping He 3 and Shibao Lu 1,2* Abstract Background: Thoracic ossification of the posterior ...
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Cervical ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament and its post surgical outcome analysis
... The posterior indirect decompression and fixation has now been adopted as the primary treatment for cervical OPLL involving multiple levels with canal occupancy by OPLL less than ...of posterior ...
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Simultaneous Diffuse Idiopathic Hyperostosis, Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament and Ligamentum Flavum
... Background and Importance: A 60-year-old diabetic man with simultaneous diffuse idiopathic hyperostosis, massive ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament and cervical and higher part of ...
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Roles and mechanisms of leptin in osteogenic stimulation in cervical ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament
... Bin Feng † , Shiliang Cao † , Jiliang Zhai, Yi Ren, Jianhua Hu, Ye Tian * and Xisheng Weng * Abstract Background: Hyperleptinemia is a common feature of obese people, and leptin, an adipocyte-derived cytokine, is ...
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The H2 blocker famotidine suppresses progression of ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament in a mouse model
... ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL)-like ectopic ossification in individual Enpp1 ttw/ttw mice reported in figure 1. Quantitation of OPLL-like ectopic ossification for each ...
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A new single nucleotide polymorphism affects the predisposition to thoracic ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament
... the posterior longitudinal ligament (T-OPLL) is one of the common factors that cause thoracic spinal stenosis, which results in intractable myelopathy and ...
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Case report of ervical myelopathy due to ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament in association with flavum ligament ossification: MRI and CT appearance
... the posterior margin of the hypertrophied posterior longitudinal ligament, the second one located ventrally, where it is continuous with the dorsal aspect of the verte- bral body ...
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Enlarged anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion in the treatment of severe localised ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament
... the posterior rim of the adjacent vertebral bodies to expose the entire OPLL and to slightly thin the ossified mass ...the posterior longitudinal ligament at the lateral weak area without ...
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Posterior longitudinal ligament resection during microscopic anterior cervical discectomy: technique and safety consideration
... Table 2 shows the operative details of the patients and their condition after surgery. The time from the diagno- sis until surgery was performed ranged between less than a day to 36 days, with a median of 4 days and IQR ...
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Association between single nucleotide polymorphism of IL15RA gene with susceptibility to ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament of the spine
... ligament of the spine Qiang Guo 1 † , Shou-Zheng Lv 1 † , Shu-Wen Wu 1 , Xu Tian 2* and Zhi-Yong Li 1 Abstract Background: Previous studies reported the association between single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) of ...
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Association of IL17RC and COL6A1 genetic polymorphisms with susceptibility to ossification of the thoracic posterior longitudinal ligament in Chinese patients
... Background: In our previous whole-genome sequencing study of 30 unrelated northern Chinese Han patients, we identified six single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the interleukin 17 receptor C (IL17RC) and collagen ...
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Original Article Anterior corpectomy and fusion for cervical ossification of posterior longitudinal ligament associated with developmental canal stenosis
... With respect to radiological findings, the mean preoperative Cobb’s angle was 6.3 degrees which increased to 12.5 degrees at the last Figure 1. A 72-year-old woman with cervical ossification of the posterior ...
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Whole-genome sequencing reveals novel genes in ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament of the thoracic spine in the Chinese population
... Chen Liang 1 , Peng Wang 1 , Xiao Liu 1 , Chenlong Yang 1 , Yunlong Ma 2 , Lei Yong 1 , Bin Zhu 2 , Xiaoguang Liu 1* and Zhongjun Liu 1 Abstract Background: Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ...
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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
... ossified posterior longitudinal ligament, and the CSF leak hap- pened when resecting the posterior longitudinal liga- ment of the cephalad ...
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Intraoperative evaluation using mobile computed tomography in anterior cervical decompression with floating method for massive ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament
... Five-year follow-up evaluation of surgical treatment for cervical myelopathy caused by ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament: a prospective comparative study of anterior de[r] ...
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Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament: MR evaluation
... of increased signal intensity (Fig.. A 64-year-old man with the mixed lesion of OPLL examined following laminectomy. The signal intensities seen on T2-weighted sag- ittal im[r] ...
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Treatment for thoracic ossification of posterior longitudinal ligament with posterior circumferential decompression: complications and managements
... OPLL which was relatively large and adhered to the dural adhesions, it was not required to completely resect it so as to avoid the resulting dural taring and cerebro- spinal fluid leak and other complications. Instead, ...
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