Risk factors for adjacent-segment failure following lumbar fixation with rigid instrumentation for degenerative instability

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 90, Issue 4 SUPPL., 1999, Pages 163-169

  Etebar, Shahin ^a   Cahill, David W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjacent segment failure; Complications; Instrumentation; Spine

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; PHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; BONE SCREW; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FEMALE; FIXATION FAILURE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LUMBAR SPINE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OSTEOPENIA; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SPINE FUSION; SPINE INSTABILITY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE STABILIZATION;

EID: 0032894508     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/spi.1999.90.2.0163     Document Type: Article

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