Comparison of plain radiographs and CT scans in instrumented posterior lumbar interbody fusion

Orthopedics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 165-172

  Siambanes, David ^a,b   Mather, Steven ^b  

^a MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Parkview Orthopedics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUMBAR SPINE; PSEUDARTHROSIS; SPINE FUSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL FUSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031915910     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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