Posterior Surgery for Cervical Myelopathy: Laminectomy, Laminectomy with Fusion, and Laminoplasty
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Posterior Surgery for Cervical Myelopathy: Laminectomy, Laminectomy with Fusion, and Laminoplasty
Cervical myelopathy describes a constellation of symptoms and signs arising from compression of the cervical spinal cord (Table 1). Because the presentation of the myelopathic patient can be quite subtle in its early manifestations, the diagnosis may easily be missed or wrongly attributed as a “normal” epiphenomenon of aging. However, because the natural history is typically one of stepwise pro...
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عنوان ژورنال: Asian Spine Journal
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1976-1902
DOI: 10.4184/asj.2008.2.2.114