====== Degenerative cervical myelopathy etiology ======

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[[Degenerative cervical myelopathy]], arises when degenerative changes in the surrounding cervical spinal structures exert mechanical stress on the [[spinal cord]] and trigger a progressive injury
((Davies BM, Mowforth OD, Smith EK, Kotter MR. Degenerative cervical myelopathy.
BMJ. 2018 Feb 22;360:k186. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k186. Review. PubMed PMID: 29472200; 
PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6074604.
)).

Such degenerative changes include [[cervical disc herniation]], [[anterior cervical osteophyte]], [[hypertrophy of the posterior longitudinal ligament]], or [[ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament]] and produce [[cervical spinal stenosis]]
((Nouri A, Martin AR, Tetreault L, Nater A, Kato S, Nakashima H, Nagoshi N,
Reihani-Kermani H, Fehlings MG. MRI Analysis of the Combined Prospectively
Collected AOSpine North America and International Data: The Prevalence and
Spectrum of Pathologies in a Global Cohort of Patients With Degenerative Cervical
Myelopathy. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2017 Jul 15;42(14):1058-1067. doi:
10.1097/BRS.0000000000001981. PubMed PMID: 27861250.
)).