Commentary Open Access
Volume 3 | Issue 2 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/neurobiology.3.016
Surgical outcomes of the thoracic ossification of ligamentum flavum: A high incidence of combined spinal stenosis
Tsuyoshi Yamada M.D., Ph.D1,*
- 1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kudanzaka Hospital, 1-6-12 Kudanminami, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0074, Japan
Corresponding Author
Tsuyoshi Yamada, yamada.orth@tmd.ac.jp
Received Date: April 02, 2021
Accepted Date: May 06, 2021
Yamada T. Surgical outcomes of the thoracic ossification of ligamentum flavum: A high incidence of combined spinal stenosis. J Neurobiol Physiol 2021; 3(2):29-31.
Copyright: © 2021 Yamada T. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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