Follow-up Study of Patients with the Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligaments in the Cervical Spine

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Since 1967, 120 patients with the ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligaments in the cervical spine have been treated in our clinic. 84 cases out of 120 had been followed up. Narrowing of the cervical canal in sagittal diameter due to the ossification, was 37 per cent in average in myelopathy and 24 per cent in non-myelopathy. The incidence of the level of the maximal ossificaticn were located in as the following order, C5, C6, C4, C3, C7 and C2.Conservative treatments were not so effective in most patients, but a few cases. Decompressive surgery should be taken into consideration before the patients with myelopathy had been fallen into severe disability.
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