Treatment of subaxial cervical spinal injuries

Neurosurgery

Volumn 50, Issue 3 SUPPL., 2002, Pages

  Hadley, Mark N ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHRODESIS; AXIS; BED REST; CERVICAL SPINE DISLOCATION; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CLAMP; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; OPEN REDUCTION; PLATE FIXATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUBLUXATION; TRACTION THERAPY; CERVICAL SPINE; DISLOCATION; EVALUATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; INJURY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE FUSION; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISLOCATIONS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRACTICE GUIDELINES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 0036491435     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200203001-00024     Document Type: Review

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