Management of cervical fractures in patients with diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis

Current Opinion in Orthopaedics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 187-192

  Kwon, Brian K ^a,b   Hilibrand, Alan S ^a,c  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; BONE TISSUE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYPEROSTOSIS; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; NOMENCLATURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK; SKELETON TRACTION; SOFT TISSUE; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0037867675     PISSN: 10419918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001433-200306000-00011     Document Type: Review

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