Clinical efficacy of lumbar and lumbosacral fusion using the Boucher facet screw fixation technique

Bulletin: Hospital for Joint Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 33-39

  Margulies, Joseph Y ^a   Seimon, Leonard P ^b  

^a Montefiore Medical Center ^*  (United States)

^b MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SPINE FUSION; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BONE SCREWS; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SACRUM; SPINAL FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034055315     PISSN: 00185647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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