Spinal cord compression by multistrand cables after solid posterior atlantoaxial fusion. Report of three cases

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 97, Issue 3 SUPPL., 2002, Pages 359-361

  Sudo, Hideki ^a   Abumi, Kuniyoshi ^a   Ito, Manabu ^a   Kotani, Yoshihisa ^a   Minami, Akio ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atlantoaxial fusion; Multistrand cable; Spinal cord compression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; ATLANTOAXIAL SUBLUXATION; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; MYELOGRAPHY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE FUSION; SPINE SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT; BONE WIRES; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYELOGRAPHY; REOPERATION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL FUSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036776167     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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