Surgical treatment of cervical spondylotic myelopathy secondary to athetoid cerebral palsy
- VernacularTitle:手足徐动症继发颈椎病的手术治疗
- Author:
Bin YI
;
Lin XU
;
Xing YU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Athetosis;
Cervical vertebrae;
Spinal fusion
- From:
Chinese Journal of Orthopaedics
1999;0(04):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To report the results of the surgical treatment of cervical spondylotic myelopathy(CSM) secondary to athetoid cerebral palsy and clarify the characteristics and the principle of treatment of the disease. Methods The age of the patient, segments of vertabrae involved and operated upon, results and complications of 32 cases with CSM secondary to athetoid cerebral palsy were statistically analyzed and compared with 93 patients who had isolate CSM operatively treated at the same time. Results 1)The average age of the patients in the group of CSM secondary to athetoid cerebral palsy was 37.94 years,and in the group of isolate CSM was 52.48 years, with significant statistic difference(P
