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- Editors:
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Kazuo Yonenobu
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National Hospital Organization, Osaka-Minami Medical Center, Osaka, Japan
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Kozo Nakamura
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Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Yoshiaki Toyama
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Department of Orthopedic Surgery School of Medicine, Keio University 35 Shinanomachi, Tokyo, Japan
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Table of contents (40 chapters)
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Diagnosis of OPLL and OYL
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- Masato Tanaka, Atsunori Kanazawa, Kazuo Yonenobu
Pages 111-113
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- Morio Matsumoto, Kazuhiro Chiba, Yoshiaki Toyama
Pages 121-125
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- Kensei Nagata, Kimiaki Sato
Pages 127-143
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- Ichiro Kikkawa, Yuichi Hoshino
Pages 145-150
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- Kenichi Shinomiya, Shoji Tomizawa, Shigenori Kawabata
Pages 151-161
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Treatment of OPLL and OLF
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Front Matter
Pages 163-163
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- Kazuo Yonenobu, Kensei Nagata, Kuniyoshi Abumi, Yoshiaki Toyama, Sinya Kawai
Pages 169-176
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- Masatoshi Sumi, Minoru Doita, Kotarou Nishida
Pages 177-180
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- Motoki Iwasaki, Kazuo Yonenobu
Pages 181-185
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- Yoshiaki Toyama, Kazuhiro Chiba
Pages 187-191
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- Kazuhiro Chiba, Yuto Ogawa, Morio Matsumoto, Yoshiaki Toyama
Pages 193-199
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- Atsushi Seichi, Katsushi Takeshita, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Kozo Nakamura
Pages 201-207
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- Kenichi Shinomiya, Tadashi Matsuoka, Yoshiro Kurosa, Shigeo Shindo, Osamu Nakai, Makoto Takahashi
Pages 209-218
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- Atsushi Seichi, Katsushi Takeshita, Kozo Nakamura
Pages 225-230
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- Kazuichiro Ohnishi, Kei Miyamoto, Hideo Hosoe, Katsuji Shimizu
Pages 231-234
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- Norio Kawahara, Katsuro Tomita, Hideki Murakami, Satoru Demura, Yoichi Sekino, Wataru Nasu et al.
Pages 235-240
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- Yukihiro Nakagawa, Munehito Yoshida
Pages 241-247
About this book
Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) is a hyperostotic condition of the spine with severe neurological deficits. In 1975 the Investigation Committee for OPLL, under the auspices of the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare, established diagnostic criteria for the condition, and with growing awareness of OPLL among Japanese researchers and spinal surgeons, the number of patients diagnosed with the condition in Japan has increased in recent years. As knowledge of OPLL has spread, there has also been an increase in the number of reported cases of the condition in other parts of the world: Asia, the United States, and Europe. Until now, however, little has been published on the subject in English; thus the appearance of this present volume is most timely. 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.
Editors and Affiliations
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National Hospital Organization, Osaka-Minami Medical Center, Osaka, Japan
Kazuo Yonenobu
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Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kozo Nakamura
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Department of Orthopedic Surgery School of Medicine, Keio University 35 Shinanomachi, Tokyo, Japan
Yoshiaki Toyama