Posterolateral approach in the treatment of unstable vertebral body fractures of the thoracic-lumbar junction with incomplete spinal cord injury in the paediatric age group

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-41

  Gambardella, Giuseppe ^a   Coman, Teodora Camelia ^b   Zaccone, Claudio ^a   Mannino, Marco ^a   Ciurea, Alexandru Vlad ^b  

^a BIANCHI MELACRINO MORELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Clinic Hospital Bagdasar Arseni Bucharest   (Romania)

Author keywords

Cotrel Dubousset system; Paediatric age group; Posterolateral approach; Spinal injury; Thoracic lumbar junction fracture

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BED REST; BRACE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KYPHOSIS; MALE; MOBILIZATION; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; REHABILITATION MEDICINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRA BODY; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; INSTRUMENTATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; METHODOLOGY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE FUSION; VERTEBRA;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL FUSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038660794     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-002-0689-6     Document Type: Article

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