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Altered Blood Flow Distribution in the Rat Spinal Cord under Chronic Compression

Ryu Kurokawa, Hidetoshi Murata, Masahiro Ogino, Keisuke Ueki, Phyo Kim

Spine · 2010 · 59 citations · 13 references

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Abstract

Under chronic focal spinal cord compression, there was a decrease of the blood flow in the compressed segment in comparison to the rostral segment. Our data are compatible with the hypothesis that alteration in the spinal cord blood flow contributes to pathogenesis of myelopathy.

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