A Case Report of Calcification of the Thoracic Yellow Ligament
胸椎部黄色靭帯石灰化症の1例

Takao Inoue, Norihei Tsuchida, Shinnosuke Nakahara
1993 Orthopedics & Traumatology  
A case of paraplegia caused by calcification of the thoracic spinal yellow ligament is presented. A 77-year-old Japanese woman had lumbago, muscle weakness of her lower extremity and hypoesthesia of right lower extremity as incipient symptoms. Radiological examination of the thoracic spine showed scoliosis, spondylotic deformity and abnormal opacity posteriorly in the spinal canal.
doi:10.5035/nishiseisai.42.126 fatcat:mchmahnr3fgnnmks6rwtoloiua