Effectiveness of Surgery for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis : A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [PDF]
, 2015 Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Bart W Koes +8 more
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Laminectomy for cervical myelopathy [PDF]
Spinal Cord, 2003 Cervical laminectomy with or without fusion, or laminoplasty, successfully address congenital or acquired stenosis, multilevel spondylosis, ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL), and ossification of the yellow ligament (OYL). To optimize surgical results, however, these procedures should be applied to carefully selected patients.To
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European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2018 Spinal cord haematoma, or haematomyelia, is a rare condition caused by several unusual disease processes. Traumatic events, such as spinal cord injury and surgery or procedures involving the spinal cord, are the most important causes of spinal cord ...
Ana Patricia Castanheira Gomes +4 more
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Anesthetic and analgesic management of a skunk (Mephitis mephitis) undergoing a laminectomy for cauda equina compression [PDF]
, 2010 A 6-year-old, male striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis) weighing 5.9 kg was anesthetized for diagnostic imaging procedures and subsequently for a laminectomy at level L6/S1 as treatment of lumbosacral stenosis. On both occasions, anesthesia was induced by a
Gozalo Marcilla, Miguel +5 more
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Early phrenic motor neuron loss and transient respiratory abnormalities following unilateral cervical spinal cord contusion [PDF]
, 2013 Contusion-type cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) is one of the most common forms of SCI observed in patients. In particular, injuries targeting the C3-C5 region affect the pool of phrenic motor neurons (PhMNs) that innervates the diaphragm, resulting in ...
Adriaens, Dominique +8 more
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Posterior Surgery for Cervical Myelopathy: Laminectomy, Laminectomy with Fusion, and Laminoplasty [PDF]
Asian Spine Journal, 2008 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.
Rhee, John M., Basra, Sushil
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Posterior Cervical Spine Crisscross Fixation: Biomechanical Evaluation [PDF]
, 2018 Background Biomechanical/anatomic limitations may limit the successful implantation, maintenance, and risk acceptance of posterior cervical plate/rod fixation for one stage decompression-fusion.
Cheng, Joseph S. +4 more
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Egyptian Journal of NeurosurgeryBackground Degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM) is the primary cause of nontraumatic spinal cord injury in adults and the elderly. Laminoplasty (LP) offers benefits for cervical lordosis and laminectomy (LF) for spinal instability, prevention of fusion-
Daniel Tama Boubane +3 more
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Surgical treatment of a paraspinal abscess with osteomyelitis and spinal cord compression in a rabbit [PDF]
, 2017 CASE DESCRIPTION A 16-month-old neutered male Continental Giant rabbit (Lepus curpaeums) was referred for evaluation of a 7-day history of acute-onset, progressive, symmetric paraparesis.
Crawford, A H +4 more
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Spinal cystic echinococcosis - a systematic analysis and review of the literature : part 2. treatment, follow-up and outcome [PDF]
, 2013 Bone involvement in human cystic echinococcosis (CE) is rare, but affects the spine in approximately 50% of cases. Despite significant advances in diagnostic imaging techniques, surgical treatment and introduction of pharmacological therapy, spinal ...
Blum, Johannes +4 more
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