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Hirayama disease is completely curable or not. What was the best treatment method.
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Not really. Cervical collar with surgery may help.
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Hirayama disease (juvenile muscular atrophy of distal upper extremity) is a cervical myelopathy. Predominantly affecting male adolescents, it is characterized by progressive muscular weakness and atrophy of distal upper limbs, followed by spontaneous arrest within several years. Current surgical treatments for hd are either anterior cervical surgery or posterior cervical surgery. The two approaches can effectively stop the disease. However, no studies have compared the advantages and limitations of the two surgical methods.
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