Use of an adjustable, transportable, radiolucent spinal immobilization device in the comprehensive management of cervical spine instability: Technical note

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1177-1180

  Tuite, Gerald F ^a   Veres, Robert ^b   Crockard, H Alan ^b   Peterson, David ^b   Hayward, Richard D ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

cervical spine; reduction; spinal fusion; spinal immobilization device; spinal stabilization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; DEVICE; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HEAD MOVEMENT; IMMOBILIZATION; NECK; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE FUSION; SPINE INSTABILITY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0029856780     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.1996.85.6.1177     Document Type: Article

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