Thoracic Myelopathy Caused by Ossification of the Yellow Ligament as a Distal Adjacent Segmental Disease after Posterior Cervical-Middle Thoracic Fusion Surgery

Although adjacent segmental disease after posterior thoracic fusion surgery is rare, thoracic myelopathy due to ossification of the yellow ligament in the lower thoracic spine could develop because of mechanical stress when the lower instrumented vertebra has been set to the middle thoracic spine du...

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Main Authors: Toru Funayama, Kentaro Mataki, Tetsuya Abe, Hiroshi Noguchi, Kousei Miura, Hiroshi Kumagai, Katsuya Nagashima, Yosuke Shibao, Kosuke Sato, Masao Koda, Masashi Yamazaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Orthopedics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/7101496
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