Nonoperative treatment of thoracolumbar fractures

Orthopedics

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 948-953

  Vanichkachorn, Jed S ^a   Vaccaro, Alexander R ^a,b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; JOINT STABILITY; REVIEW; SPINE FRACTURE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; SPINAL FRACTURES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030731732     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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