ArticleNeurospine2019
An Age-old Debate: Anterior Versus Posterior Surgery for Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament.
Article in Neurospine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Risk factors for segmental ossification volume progression in cervical ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament after laminoplasty.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2026Article
- Single-cell transcriptome profiling reveals the heterogeneity of ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) and its immune microenvironment.Cell biology and toxicology · 2026Article
- Outcomes of microscopy‑assisted anterior cervical discectomy and fusion in a selected cohort with soft giant cervical disc herniation‑induced cervical spondylotic myelopathy.Wideochirurgia i inne techniki maloinwazyjne = Videosurgery and other miniinvasive techniques · 2025Article
- Deep learning for identifying cervical ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2025Article
- Clinical and radiological outcomes of multilevel cervical laminoplasty versus three-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion in patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2020Article
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