Synopsis

"...consists of contributions from experts worldwide on the recent advances in the study of these disorders...includes sections on symptomatology, radiology including MRI, ...

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Thirty-one contributions discuss research into cervical spondylotic myelopathy, including the discovery by Japanese orthopedic surgeons of the "myleopathy hand"<-->enabling early recognition of the affliction<-->and the development of canal-expansive laminoplasty. They also study the accomplishment of the decompression of the impinged spinal chord (with remarkable ill effects), and address such issues as clinical anatomy of the cervical spine, radiographic evaluation, anterior surgery specific to deltoid muscle paresis, and instruments and substitutes for bone graft. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.