Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion for Hirayama Disease: A Case Report and Literature Review

Hirayama disease, a juvenile muscular atrophy of the distal upper extremity, is a rare form of cervical flexion myelopathy characterized by insidiously progressive weakness of the hands and forearm muscles (i.e., painless amyotrophy). The pathognomonic finding is a markedly forward-shifted spinal co...

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Main Authors: Yi-Hsuan Kuo, Chao-Hung Kuo, Wen-Cheng Huang, Jau-Ching Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korean Spinal Neurosurgery Society 2019-09-01
Series:Neurospine
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Online Access:http://www.e-neurospine.org/upload/pdf/ns-1836178-089.pdf