J Korean Neurosurg Soc.
1993 Feb;22(2):159-168.
Omentum-Spinal Transposion in Nontraumatic Spinal Stenotic Myelopathy
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- 1Department of Neurosurgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
- 2Department of General Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Abstract
- Stenotic myelopathy due to ossification of posterior longitudinal ligament or degenerative spondylosis compresses the spinal cord and produces pain, motor weakness, sensory change, spasticity by several factors such as direct compression, vascular factor, mechanical factors. Chronic compression of spinal cord causes a ischemic change of spinal cord and cord atrophy. In this condition, only decompression of cord with wide decompressive laminectomy or expansive laminoplasty initially can expect mild improvement of clinical conditions of cord compression, but it cannot improve the irreversible ischemic change or atrophy of cord. Omentum in peritoneal cavity has food blood supply and has lipid angiogenic factors proven by experimental study. Using these characteristics omentum transposition to spinal cord in chronic spinal cord injured patients have been tried. Authors tried the omentum-spinal transposition after wide decompressive laminectomy in three cases of severe nontraumatic spinal stenotic myelopathy and experienced the marked clinical improvement in one case of them. Operative thechniques were introduced and literatures were reviewed.
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