Usefulness of Percutaneous Ultrasonography for Deciding the Need of Surgical Evacuation of Epidural Hematoma After Cervical Double-door Laminoplasty

Autor: Yoshiharu Nakaya, Yoshitada Usami, Sachio Hayama, Takashi Fujishiro, Masashi Neo, Atsushi Nakano, Toma Yano, Masahiro Mizutani
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Clinical Spine Surgery: A Spine Publication. 35:E216-E222
ISSN: 2380-0186
DOI: 10.1097/bsd.0000000000001189
Popis: STUDY DESIGN This was a retrospective study. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to investigate the diagnostic utility of percutaneous ultrasonography (PUS) for postoperative epidural hematoma (EH) as a postoperative complication. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA We investigated the usefulness of PUS for determining the need of surgical evacuation of postoperative EH by comparing the postoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and PUS of the spinal cord. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study included patients who underwent cervical laminoplasty using suture anchors. Regular MRI and PUS were performed 1 week postoperatively. Whenever the patients exhibited neurological deterioration, MRI and PUS were performed. The spinal cord decompression status was classified into 3 grades using MRI and PUS. The existence of spinal pulsation was determined by PUS. RESULTS One hundred thirty-one patients were investigated. The decompression status by MRI and PUS, and the pulsation status by PUS showed a correlation with neurological deterioration (P
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