The value of anterior cervical plating in preventing vertebral fracture and graft extrusion after multilevel anterior cervical corpectomy with posterior wiring and fusion: Indications, results, and complications

Journal of Spinal Disorders

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 9-15

  Epstein, N E ^a  

^a Long Island Neurosurgical Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior plates; Circumferential cervical surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; OSSIFICATION; POSTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE SURGERY; TREATMENT INDICATION; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; WIRE FIXATION;

ADULT; AGED; BONE PLATES; BONE WIRES; BRACES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISKECTOMY; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL FUSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033802121     PISSN: 08950385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002517-200002000-00002     Document Type: Article

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