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2287369

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-3-26
pubmed:abstractText
Outcome from surgery for cervical spondylosis is often disappointing. To identify possible causes of poor outcome 56 such patients referred for post-operative computed myelography or MRI were evaluated, 22 of which eventually had further surgery. Alternative diagnoses to cervical spondylosis were eventually established in 14.3%; 26.8% had spinal cord atrophy 15.6% of which also had myelomalacia; 28.6% had diffuse spinal canal stenosis; and in 57.1% surgery had failed to decompress the spinal canal. These findings can be partly explained by patient selection criteria; nevertheless they do serve to emphasises the point often ignored in discussions of the efficacy of surgery in cervical spondylosis, that operations significantly often fail to achieve adequate decompression. Furthermore there was no evidence in this material that osteophytes regress after spinal fusion.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0028-3940
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
32
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
450-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Identifiable causes for poor outcome in surgery for cervical spondylosis. Post-operative computed myelography and MR imaging.
pubmed:affiliation
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, England.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article