A Retrospective Radiographic Analysis of Subaxial Sagittal Alignment after Posterior C1-C2 Fusion

Spine

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 175-181

  Yoshimoto, Hisashi ^a   Ito, Manabu ^a   Abumi, Kuniyoshi ^a   Kotani, Yoshihisa ^a   Shono, Yasuhiro ^a   Takada, Takashige ^a   Minami, Akio ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atlantoaxial fusion; Atlantoaxial subluxation; Cervical alignment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATLANTOAXIAL DISLOCATION; ATLANTOAXIAL JOINT; ATLANTOAXIAL POSTERIOR SPINE FUSION; AXIS; CLAMP; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KYPHOSIS; LORDOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK PAIN; ODONTOID PROCESS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPINE FUSION; SPINE INJURY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SUBAXIAL KYPHOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WIRE FIXATION;

ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KYPHOSIS; LORDOSIS; MALE; NECK; NECK PAIN; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1642539195     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.BRS.0000107225.97653.CA     Document Type: Article

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