Complications of buttress plate stabilization of cervical corpectomy

Spine

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 2404-2410

  Daniel Riew, K ^a,b   Sethi, Navin S ^a   Devney, James ^b   Goette, Kari ^a   Choi, Katie ^b  

^a BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Buttress plate; Cervical spine; Complications

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BIOMECHANICS; BONE PLATE; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE STABILIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE PLATES; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL OSTEOPHYTOSIS;

EID: 0032705143     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199911150-00019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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