Clinical Study of Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament

頚椎後縦靭帯骨化の臨床的研究

Clinical Study of Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament

Creators Okuyama Satoru

For study of ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament, the author has analysed clinically 262 cases collected epidemiologically from Chugoku-area, and has examined 42 patients with cervical myelopathy due to the ossification, who were treated surgically in the clinic of department of orthopedic surgery Yamaguchi University. The results are : 1) Higher incidence was observed in male, approximately twice as much as in female. Initial symptoms mostly began at age 40 to 50. 2) 96% of cases with ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament had more or less clinical symptoms and signs. Half of the cases showed spinal cord dyfunction…

[ISSN]0513-1731

[NCID]AN00243156