Use of the telescopic plate spacer in treatment of cervical and cervicothoracic spine tumors

Neurosurgery

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 417-426

  Coumans, Jean Valéry C E ^a   Marchek, Connie P ^b   Henderson, Fraser C ^b   Traynelis, Vincent C ^c   Rathjy, John ^c   Cooper, Paul R ^c   Haid, Regis W ^c   Hadley, Mark N ^c   Sonntag, Volker K H ^c  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cervical spine; Cervicothoracic junction; Instrumentation; Spinal metastasis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GOAT; HEIGHT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KYPHOSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPINE SURGERY; SPINE TUMOR; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; THORACIC SPINE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BONE PLATES; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GOATS; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC FIXATION DEVICES; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 0036705688     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200208000-00021     Document Type: Article

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