Posterior distraction forces of the posterior longitudinal ligament stratified according to vertebral level
β Scribed by R. Shane Tubbs; Marios Loukas; April Phantana-Angkool; Mohammadali M. Shoja; Mohammad R. Ardalan; Ghaffar Shokouhi; W. Jerry Oakes
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 253 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0930-1038
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Forty-seven patients with cervical myeloradiculopathy due to ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament were treated by laminoplasty. The spinal canal from C3 to C7 was opened en bloc unilaterally and a spacer bone graft inserted to separate the floating laminae. The average follow up was 7
We studied 23 patients with severe myeloradiculopathy involving multiple (more than three) levels of ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) of the cervical spine, who were treated with laminoplasty to enlarge the spinal canal. The resected spinous processes were used as bone graf