Craniocervical junction instability: Instrumentation and fusion with titanium rods and sublaminar wires. Effectiveness and failures in personal experience

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 265-272

  Visocchi, Massimiliano ^a   Di Rocco, F ^a   Meglio, M ^a   Maciejczak Tamow, Andrzej ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b Cathol Univ of Sacred Heart ^*

Author keywords

Craniocervical junction instability; Down's syndrome; Mucopolysaccaridosis; Sublaminar wiring

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL JOINT; BASILAR IMPRESSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; JOINT INSTABILITY; MALE; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITOCERVICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPINE FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WIRE FIXATION; X RAY;

ADULT; AGED; ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BONE WIRES; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPINAL FUSION; TITANIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0038705311     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-002-1067-6     Document Type: Article

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