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Osteoptysis: a complication of cervical spine surgery
1Department of Neurology, East Birmingham Hospital, Bordesley Green East, UK.
British Journal of Neurosurgery
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
The case is described of a lady who developed dysphagia and dysphonia misdiagnosed first as hysteria, then as myasthenia gravis, one year after a Cloward's operation for cervical disc disease. After a bout of coughing the bony dowel was expelled and the correct diagnosis was made.