Immediate open anterior reduction and antero-posterior fixation/fusion for bilateral cervical locked facets

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 147, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 509-514

  Payer, M ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cervical locked facets; Cervical spine; Facet dislocation; Spinal fusion; Spinal reduction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OPEN REDUCTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRACTION THERAPY;

AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISLOCATIONS; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; LIGAMENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; QUADRIPLEGIA; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL INJURIES; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

EID: 18044366928     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-004-0462-6     Document Type: Article

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