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Voiding dysfunction associated with cervical spondylotic myelopathy
Author(s) -
Katz P. Gary,
Alberico Anthony M.,
Zampieri Thomas A.,
Fox Lorick
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
neurourology and urodynamics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.918
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1520-6777
pISSN - 0733-2467
DOI - 10.1002/nau.1930060510
Subject(s) - medicine , dyssynergia , myelopathy , hyperreflexia , cervical spondylosis , detrusor sphincter dyssynergia , surgery , presentation (obstetrics) , sphincter , central nervous system disease , neurological disorder , spinal cord , alternative medicine , pathology , psychiatry
Patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy who were neurosurgical candidates were prospectively evaluated for voiding abnormalities. The patients had relatively advanced neurologic disease because of delays in presentation and in diagnosis. The 22 consecutive patients included 20 males and 2 females with average age of 57 years. Sixteen patients had voiding symptoms with 12 noting a change in voiding pattern following the onset of their neurologic symptoms. Detrusor hyperreflexia was present in 16 (73%) of the patients and external sphincter dyssynergia in 8 (36%) of the patients. Neurologically mediated voiding dysfunction was common in patients with myelopathy secondary to cervical spondylosis.