Surgery for Thoracic Myelopathy due to Ossification of Ligaments with Intraoperative Ultrasonography and Ultrasonic Osteotome
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Thoracic myelopathy due to isolated ossification of the ligamentum flavum.
We report a 72-year-old patient with thoracic myelopathy due to isolated ossification of the ligamentum flavum at T9-T10. Severe paraparesis had developed before the lesion was identified when thinning of a segment of the lower thoracic spinal cord was suspected on a second MRI examination. The diagnosis was then established by CT.
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عنوان ژورنال: Spinal Surgery
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0914-6024,1880-9359
DOI: 10.2531/spinalsurg.13.281