Cervical Myelopathy

Abstract

Myelopathy is the term designated to all chronic cord lesions regardless of their etiologic origins which may be vascular, inflammatory, nutritional deficiency, post-radiation etc ... but the term myelopathy is more restrictive and should be reserved for a chronic cord lesion resulting from the reduction in the dimensions of the cervical spinal canal of which the main etiology is cervical spondylosis. L'encyclopédie neurochirurgicale