Extension to the sacrum of previous adolescent scoliosis fusions in adult life

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 364, Issue , 1999, Pages 53-60

  Kostuik, John P ^a,b   Musha, Yoshira ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BONE ATROPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; LORDOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE FUSION; SPINE INSTABILITY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

EID: 0032866634     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-199907000-00008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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