1. Cervical Myelopathy and Its Relationship to Cervical Stenosis
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Turner D, Smyth Hs, Colwill Jc, and Veidlinger Of
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Cord ,business.industry ,Laminectomy ,Normal population ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Compression (physics) ,Surgery ,Spinal Osteophytosis ,Stenosis ,Myelopathy ,Cervical Vertebrae ,Humans ,Medicine ,Female ,Spinal Diseases ,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine ,Neurology (clinical) ,business ,Spinal Cord Compression ,Aged - Abstract
Thirty-five cases of cervical myelopathy encountered over a ten-year period showed that patients with symptoms had a canal diameter well below the average for the normal population. Thirty cases were treated operatively and did better than expected even after prolonged periods of cord compression.
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- 1981
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