Asian Spine Journal

Extent of intramedullary short tau inversion recovery signal change predicts traumatic cervical spinal cord injury outcomes in surgically treated older adults: a multicenter study in Japan: Takashi Takizawa, Shota Ikegami, Masashi Uehara, Hiroki Oba, Noriaki Yokogawa, Takeshi Sasagawa, Hiroaki Nakashima, Naoki Segi, Sadayuki Ito, Toru Funayama, Fumihiko Eto, Akihiro Yamaji, Kota Watanabe, Satoshi Nori, Kazuki Takeda, Takeo Furuya, Atsushi Yunde, Hideaki Nakajima, Tomohiro Yamada, Tomohiko Hasegawa, Yoshinori Terashima, Ryosuke Hirota, Hidenori Suzuki, Yasuaki Imajo, Hitoshi Tonomura, Munehiro Sakata, Ko Hashimoto, Yoshito Onoda, Kenichi Kawaguchi, Yohei Haruta, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Kenji Kato, Hiroshi Uei, Hirokatsu Sawada, Kazuo Nakanishi, Hidetomi Terai, Koji Tamai, Akiyoshi Kuroda, Gen Inoue, Takashi Yurube, Yuji Kakiuchi, Katsuhito Kiyasu, Hiroyuki Tominaga, Yoichi Iizuka, Eiji Takasawa, Koji Akeda, Norihiko Takegami, Haruki Funao, Yasushi Oshima, Takashi Kaito, Daisuke Sakai, Toshitaka Yoshii, Tetsuro Ohba, Bungo Otsuki, Shoji Seki, Masashi Miyazaki, Masayuki Ishihara, Seiji Okada, Shiro Imagama, Satoshi Kato; Received November 28, 2025 Accepted February 22, 2026 Published online July 9, 2026; [Online first]; Full text PubReader PDF Supplementary Material