Operative treatment of the patient with neck pain

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 675-692

  Ahn, Nicholas U ^a   Ahn, Uri M ^b   Andersson, Gunnar B J ^a   An, Howard S ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b New Hampshire Neuro Spine Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; BONE GRAFT; BONE SCREW; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LAMINECTOMY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NECK PAIN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULAR PAIN; RADICULOPATHY; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0042230915     PISSN: 10479651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1047-9651(03)00042-1     Document Type: Review

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