Thoracic myelopathy due to isolated ossification of the ligamentum flavum
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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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1Department of Neurosurgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India 2Department of Neurosurgery, King George Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India 3Department of Neurosurgery, Sawai Man Singh Medical College, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India 4Department of Anesthesiology, SMS Medical College, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India 5Department of Anaesthesiology, HIMS, Joll...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British volume
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0301-620X,2044-5377
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620x.77b1.7822370