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Cervical myelopathy due to calcification of the ligamentum flavum
1Department of Neurology, Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia.
The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery
|March 1, 1988
Abstract:
An elderly Caucasian woman presented with a cervical myelopathy due to cervical spinal cord compression posteriorly by calcified ligamentum flavum and anteriorly by cervical osteophytic bars. Although recognized in the Japanese population, calcification of the ligamentum flavum as a cause of cervical myelopathy is very rare in Caucasians, with only one case previously reported.