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MicroRNA-181 regulates the development of Ossification of Posterior longitudinal ligament via Epigenetic Modulation by targeting PBX1. [PDF]

Theranostics, 2020
Objectives: Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) presents as the development of heterotopic ossification in the posterior longitudinal ligament of the spine.
Liu N, Zhang Z, Li L, Shen X, Sun B, Wang R, Zhong H, Shi Q, Wei L, Zhang Y, Wang Y, Xu C, Liu Y, Yuan W.   +13 more
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Analysis of Gait Motion Changes by Intervention Using Robot Suit Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) in Myelopathy Patients After Decompression Surgery for Ossification of Posterior Longitudinal Ligament. [PDF]

Front Neurorobot, 2021
Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) is a hyperostonic condition in which the posterior longitudinal ligament becomes thick and loses its flexibility, resulting in ectopic ossification and severe neurologic deficit (Matsunaga and ...
Ezaki S, Kadone H, Kubota S, Abe T, Shimizu Y, Tan CK, Miura K, Hada Y, Sankai Y, Koda M, Suzuki K, Yamazaki M.   +11 more
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Ossification of Posterior Longitudinal Ligament in Cervical Spine and Its Association With Ossified Lesions in the Whole Spine: A Cross-Sectional Study of 2500 CT Scans. [PDF]

Global Spine J, 2023
Study Design: A retrospective study. Objective: To identify the prevalence and characteristics of ossified posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) in the cervical spine and its association with other spinal ligament ossifications.
Singh NA, Shetty AP, Jakkepally S, Kumarasamy D, Kanna RM, Rajasekaran S.   +5 more
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Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament located on the concave side of the apex vertebra in adult spinal deformity [PDF]

, 2021
A 48-year-old female patient presented with discomfort in the front of the chest. Whole spinal X-ray revealed a thoracic curve of 52°, and thoracic computed tomography (CT) myelography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed that ossification of the ...
Koshimizu, Hiroyuki, Yamaguchi, Hidetoshi, Ando, Kei, Kobayashi, Kazuyoshi, Machino, Masaaki, Nakashima, Hiroaki, Kanbara, Shunsuke, Imagama, Shiro, Inoue, Taro, Ito, Sadayuki   +9 more
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Anterior Decompression and Fusion for the Treatment of Cervical Myelopathy Caused by Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament: A Narrative Review

Asian Spine Journal, 2023
Occasionally, ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) causes cord compression, resulting in cervical myelopathy. OPLL differs from other causes of cervical spondylotic myelopathy in several ways, and the surgical strategy should be ...
Sehan Park, Dong-Ho Lee, Choon-Sung Lee, C. Hwang, Jae-Jun Yang, J. Cho   +5 more
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Comparison of anterior cervical discectomy and fusion versus anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion in the treatment of localized ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery, 2023
Background The retrospective study was conducted to compare the efficacy of anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) and anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion (ACCF) for localized ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) by ...
Ta-Chung Chen, Yujie Wang, Hong Zhou, Cheng Lin, Xuefeng Li, Huilin Yang, Yijie Liu, Weimin Jiang   +7 more
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Does Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament Progress After Fusion? [PDF]

Neurospine, 2019
Starting in the 1960s, ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) became more commonly diagnosed in Japan. The disease is characterized by a gradual increase in calcification of the posterior longitudinal ligament with the eventual ...
Sasha Vaziri, Dennis Timothy Lockney, Alexander B. Dru, Adam J. Polifka, W. Christopher Fox, Daniel J. Hoh   +5 more
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Analysis of Myelomalacia and Posterior Longitudinal Ligament Ossification as Prognostic Factors in Patients with Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy Submitted to Laminoplasty

Brazilian Neurosurgery, 2022
Background Cervical spondylotic myelopathy is a degenerative disease of the intervertebral disc and the vertebral body of the spine that causes cervical spinal cord injury due to central vertebral canal stenosis.
Desirée Elizabeth Pasqualetto Antikievicz, Giulio Bartié Rossi, Marcos Vinicius Calfatt Maldaun, Daniel Gripp, Cassiano de Marchi, Luiz Vinícius de Alcantara Sousa, Paulo Henrique Pires de Aguiar   +6 more
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Case Report: Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis with ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament in the cervical spine: A rare case with dysphagia and neurological deficit and literature review

Frontiers in Surgery, 2022
Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) is characterized by the calcification and ossification of ligaments and tendons. Progressive dysphagia caused by DISH-related anterior cervical osteophytes and deteriorating dysphagia caused by DISH ...
Chaoyuan Li, Wenqi Luo, Hongchao Zhang, Jianhui Zhao, Rui Gu   +4 more
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Augmented Reality Support for Anterior Decompression and Fusion Using Floating Method for Cervical Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament

Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2023
Anterior decompression and fusion (ADF) using the floating method for cervical ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) is an ideal surgical technique, but it has a specific risk of insufficient decompression caused by the impingement ...
H. Onuma, Kenichiro Sakai, Yoshiyasu Arai, Ichiro Torigoe, Masaki Tomori, K. Sakaki, T. Hirai, Satoru Egawa, Yutaka Kobayashi, A. Okawa, T. Yoshii   +10 more
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