Techniques for the ventral correction of postsurgical cervical kyphotic deformity

Neurosurgery

Volumn 56, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2005, Pages

  Stewart, Todd J ^a   Steinmetz, Michael P ^a   Benzel, Edward C ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior; Correction; Deformity; Kyphosis; Spine

Indexed keywords

BONE GRAFT; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; KYPHOSCOLIOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINE MALFORMATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; KYPHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 13444253929     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000144496.36844.7B     Document Type: Review

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