Delayed Esophageal Injury without Instrumentation Failure: Complication of Anterior Cervical Instrumentation

Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 519-523

  Witwer, Brian P ^a   Resnick, Daniel K ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior approaches; Complications; Corpectomy; Esophageal perforation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTERIOR CERVICAL CORPECTOMY; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINE FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANAMNESIS; BREATHING DISORDER; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HEMATOMA; HYPOTENSION; MUSCLE FLAP; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; QUADRIPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE SURGERY; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; BONE PLATES; BONE SCREWS; ESOPHAGEAL PERFORATION; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL OSTEOPHYTOSIS; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 0346328376     PISSN: 15360652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00024720-200312000-00006     Document Type: Review

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