Book Details

OPLL : Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament

Publication year: 2006

ISBN: 978-4-431-32563-5

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It brings together information on all aspects of OPLL - epidemiology, etiology, diagnosis, and treatment - with contributions by Japanese researchers and surgeons, including members of the Ministry of Health and Welfare Investigation Committee, and by American surgeons with expertise in the field. This collection of reports on OPLL, amply augmented with illustrations, will be of special interest to orthopedic surgeons and neurosurgeons, and to neurologists, rheumatologists, neuroradiologists, and pathologists.


Subject: Medicine, Myelopathy, bone, clinical trial, decompression, imaging, ossfication of the posterior logitudinal ligament, pathology, sonography, spinal cord, spine, surgery