Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy: The Outcome and Potential Complications of Surgical Treatment

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy: The Outcome and Potential Complications of Surgical Treatment
Original language description
Cervical spondylotic myelopathy is the most common cause of spinal cord dysfunction in patients over 60 years old. Symptoms often develop gradually and insidiously and are characterized by neck stiffness, arm pain, numbness and clumsiness of hands, as well as weakness of the hands and legs frequently leading to a change in mobility. Surgery is performed primarily to prevent the progression of symptoms but also with the aim of improving existing symptoms. Aim of our study was to assess the outcomes and potential complications of surgical decompression of cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM). Prospective data was collected from 71 patients who were treated surgically for CSM over a four-year period (June 2006 to June 2010). Only patients with confirmedspondylotic cervical mmyelopathy were included in the study; those with an inflammatory, infectious or neoplastic etiology were excluded. The Nurick scale was used as a primary outcome measure, and the improvement in upper limb function a
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
FI - Traumatology and orthopaedics
OECD FORD branch
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Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical
Acta Chirurgiae Orthopaedicae et Traumatologiae Čechoslovaca
ISSN
0001-5415
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Volume of the periodical
80
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
328-334
UT code for WoS article
000326848600003
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