The wiltse pedicle screw fixation system: Early clinical results

Spine

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1989, Pages 461-467

  Horowitch, Alan ^a   Peek, Richard D ^a   Thomas, James C ^a   Widell, Eric H ^a   Dimartino, Paul P ^a   Spencer, Curtis W ^b   Weinstein, James ^c   Wiltse, Leon L ^a  

^a California Spine Surgery Medical Group Inc ^*  (United States)

^b LONG BEACH MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical results; Internal fixation; Lumbar spine fusion; Wiltse pedicle screw

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LORDOSIS; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PEDICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE FUSION;

ADULT; AGED; BONE SCREWS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; ORTHOPEDIC FIXATION DEVICES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FUSION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0024513558     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-198904000-00025     Document Type: Article

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