3- to 11-year followup of occipitocervical fusion for rheumatoid arthritis

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 351, Issue , 1998, Pages 169-179

  Mori, Teruo ^a   Matsunaga, Shunji ^a   Sunahara, Nobuhiko ^a   Sakou, Takashi ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE FUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0031799170     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-199806000-00020     Document Type: Article

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