Cough induced by ossification of the ligamentum flavum in the

Journal of neurosurgery · Apr 2004

Case Reports

Cough induced by ossification of the ligamentum flavum in the high cervical spine. Case report.

The authors report a very rare case of high cervical ossification of the ligamentum flavum (OLF) in a 40-year-old woman who developed an intractable cough after a traffic accident. The patient's symptoms subsided immediately after decompressive laminectomy and removal of the lesion. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first reported case of high cervical OLF in a patient who presented with a cough. The pathophysiological mechanism underlying the cough was determined to be symptomatic of high cervical spine OLF.

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- Yu-Cheng Chou, Chau-Chin Lee, Pao-Sheng Yen, Jui-Feng Lin, Chain-Fa Su, Shinn-Zong Lin, and Wu-Fu Chen.
- Department of Surgery (Division of Neurosurgery), Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan, Republic of China.
- J. Neurosurg. 2004 Apr 1; 100 (4 Suppl Spine): 364-6.
AbstractThe authors report a very rare case of high cervical ossification of the ligamentum flavum (OLF) in a 40-year-old woman who developed an intractable cough after a traffic accident. The patient's symptoms subsided immediately after decompressive laminectomy and removal of the lesion. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first reported case of high cervical OLF in a patient who presented with a cough. The pathophysiological mechanism underlying the cough was determined to be symptomatic of high cervical spine OLF.

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