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.
Chou
Yu-Cheng
YC
Department of Surgery (Division of Neurosurgery), Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan, Republic of China.
Lee
Chau-Chin
CC
Yen
Pao-Sheng
PS
Lin
Jui-Feng
JF
Su
Chain-Fa
CF
Lin
Shinn-Zong
SZ
Chen
Wu-Fu
WF
D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000328:Adult; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae; D003371:Cough / Q000209:etiology*; D019299:Decompression, Surgical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007796:Laminectomy; D017843:Ligamentum Flavum / Q000473:pathology*; D009999:Ossification, Heterotopic / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery