OPERATIVE RESULTS AND POSTOPERATIVE PROGRESSION OF OSSIFICATION AMONG PATIENTS WITH OSSIFICATION OF CERVICAL POSTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT
OPERATIVE RESULTS AND POSTOPERATIVE PROGRESSION OF OSSIFICATION AMONG PATIENTS WITH OSSIFICATION OF CERVICAL POSTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT
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DOI:
10.1097/00007632-198107000-00005
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
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3
通讯作者:
WAKANO, K
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作者:
HIRABAYASHI, K;MIYAKAWA, J;WAKANO, K
Although the pathogenesis of ossification of the cervical posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) is not clarified, severe cervical myelopathy or radiculopathy is apparently caused by OPLL. Cases [53] who were operated on for OPLL with myelopathy or radiculopathy were followed-up. A recovery rate of .apprx. 70% was observed. Postoperative progressions of the ossification were observed among 75% of the cases of continuous and mixed type but seldom among those with segmental and other types. Biological, structural and mobility-related elements may be causative factors for these postoperative progressions of ossification. In the ossified stage it is desirable to apply anterior decompression for the segmental and other type, posterior decompression for the continuous and mixed type and, if necessary, 2-stage combined decompression for the mixed type.