Yukihiro Nakagawa Author
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Orthopaedic Surgery
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan
Yukihiro Nakagawa, belonging to the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, interested in the field of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan
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Author(s): Motohiro Okada, Munehito Yoshida, Hiroshi Yamada,Hiroshi Hashizume, Akihito Minamide, Yukihiro Nakagawa,Hiroshi Iwasaki and Shunji Tsutsui
Adjacent Segment Diseases Following Expansive Cervical Laminoplasty: A Report of Five Cases
Expansive laminoplasty has become the gold standard for surgical treatment of cervical multilevel compressive myelopathy. The procedure preserves the motion segment, and it has been believed hitherto that adjacent segment disease would not occur following the procedure. We report the adjacent segment disease following expansive laminoplasty for compressive cervical myelopathy and postulate on the possible pathophysiologic mechanism of the disease.
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