Analysis of Screw Placement Relative to the Aorta and Spinal Canal Following Anterior Instrumentation for Thoracic Idiopathic Scoliosis

Spine

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 554-559

  Sucato, Daniel J ^a,b   Kassab, Farid ^a   Dempsey, Molly ^a  

^a TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior instrumentation; Aorta; Idiopathic scoliosis; Spinal canal

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; AORTA; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; THORACIC SPINE; VERTEBRA BODY; VERTEBRAL CANAL;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; AORTOGRAPHY; BONE SCREWS; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL CANAL; SPINAL FUSION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; THORACOSCOPY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 1442360627     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.BRS.0000106495.91477.92     Document Type: Article

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