Cervical myelopathy, also known as cervical spondylotic myelopathy, is a common spinal cord disorder. The disease can reduce quality of life similarly to diabetes or cancer, but data on its prevalence ...

Infection, intramedullary and extramedullary space-occupying lesions, trauma, vascular abnormalities, degenerative processes and cervical spondylosis have been implicated with the disease, the latter ...

Cervical myelopathy is a condition that happens when the spinal cord in the neck is compressed or squeezed. There are many things that can cause this, but one of the most common is cervical ...

for treating two-adjacent-level cervical spondylosis myelopathy (CSM). Participants Nine eligible trials with a total of 631 patients and a male-to-female ratio of 1.38:1 were included in this ...

Ossification takes place in the posterior longitudinal ligament and ligamentum flavum of the spine under certain conditions of unknown nature. Ossification of these ligaments has the following ...

Degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM) is a clinical condition of upper motor neuron lesion signs, that is confirmed with advanced imaging demonstrating compression of the spinal cord in the cervical ...

The examination of the legs, cranial nerves and sensibility was unremarkable. The paresthesias during flexion of the neck suggested a cervical myelopathy, but the distribution of the muscle weakness ...

Symptoms may develop gradually over a long time and include pain in the neck and upper body. As the condition worsens, you may develop cervical myelopathy, a neurological condition that can affect ...

In patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy MRI sometimes shows increased signal intensity zones on the T2-weighted images. It has been suggested that these findings carry prognostic significance ...

m2.kufm.kagoshima-u.ac.jp A rare case is presented of a synovial cyst located at the level of C3–C4 that caused cervical myelopathy and that was preoperatively diagnosed by facet arthrography. A woman ...

1 Department of Sensory and Motor System Medicine, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan Background Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) of the spine ...