Michael G. Fehlings
University of Toronto
1351 Papers
3.3K Citations
Michael G. Fehlings is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Spinal cord injury. The author has an hindex of 116, co-authored 1189 publications. Previous affiliations of Michael G. Fehlings include Toronto Rehabilitation Institute & Rick Hansen Institute.
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Papers
Key Preoperative Clinical Factors Predicting Outcome in Surgically Treated Patients with Metastatic Epidural Spinal Cord Compression: Results from a Survey of 438 AOSpine International Members
Anick Nater,Lindsay L. Tetreault,Aileen M. Davis,Arjun Sahgal,Abhaya V. Kulkarni,Michael G. Fehlings,Michael G. Fehlings +6 more
TL;DR: Neurosurgeons and orthopedic surgeons and respondents from different geographic regions generally identified similar preoperative clinical factors as key predictors of survival, neurologic, functional, and HRQoL outcomes in surgical MESCC patients.
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Degenerative cervical myelopathy: Where have we been? Where are we now? Where are we going?
TL;DR: Recent advancements in the field ofegenerative cervical myelopathy are summarized, including the comprehensive definition recently refined by the RECODE-DCM group, including steps taken to arrive at this definition and the supporting rationale.
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Pitfalls in the publication of scientific literature: a road map to manage conflict of interest and other ethical challenges
TL;DR: The authors discuss the challenges related to scientific medical writing and provide updated recommendations for both the prevention and management of these issues.
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A systematic review of spinal fMRI research: outlining the elements of experimental design.
TL;DR: A systematic review of spinal fMRI studies conducted in healthy individuals with a focus on the different motor and sensory paradigms used and the results acquired underscores that spinal f MRI signals can be obtained from the human spinal cord.
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The Influence of Cervical Spondylolisthesis on Clinical Presentation and Surgical Outcome in Patients With DCM: Analysis of a Multicenter Global Cohort of 458 Patients.
Aria Nouri,So Kato,Jetan H. Badhiwala,Michael Robinson,Juan C. Mejia Munne,George Yang,William Jeong,Rani Nasser,David Gimbel,Joseph S. Cheng,Michael G. Fehlings,Michael G. Fehlings +11 more
TL;DR: CS patients are older, present with worse neurological/functional impairment, and receive surgery on more levels and more commonly from the posterior, which may indicate a more advanced state of DCM pathology and is more likely to result in a suboptimal surgical outcome.
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