Posterior cervical fusion failure in three morbidly obese patients following circumferential surgery

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 205-210

  Epstein, Nancy E ^a,b,c,d  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Northwell Health   (United States)

^c WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Long Island Neurosurgical Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Inductive Conductive Matrix; Morbidly obese; Posterior cervical fusion

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE ALLOGRAFT; BONE GRAFT; BONE MATRIX; BONE PLATE; BRACE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DONOR SITE; FEMALE; FIBULA; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; HUMAN; ILIAC CREST; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MORBID OBESITY; MORBIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOSIS; OSSIFICATION; PATIENT; POSTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PSEUDARTHROSIS; REOPERATION; SPINE FUSION; THORACIC SPINE; TREATMENT FAILURE; VERTEBRA; WIRE FIXATION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0042665442     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(03)00295-7     Document Type: Article

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