Neurological Surgery 脳神経外科17巻2号

1989年02月発行

研究

Anterolateral Uncoforaminotomy for Cervical Spondylotic Monoradiculopathy

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所属機関： ¹帝京大学整形外科

ページ範囲：P.153 - P.158

　Twenty patients with cervical spondylotic monoradi—culopathy treated with anterolateral uncoforaminotomy　were analysed．Spondylotic spur of the level associated　with radiculopathy was revealed to be continuous from　the uncovertebral joint to the posterior ridge of the ver—tebral body in 18 patients and was observed postero—laterally in two．Anterolateral uncoforaminotomy wasfound to safely remove the continuous type of spur, re—sulting in decompression of the cord-root complex，which shifted anteriorly after surgery．As a result, no　neurological symptoms were observed in 19 of 20 radi—culopathy patients．