Surgical management of odontoid fractures

Injury

Volumn 36, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2005, Pages S54-S64

  Ochoa, Germán ^a  

^a Department of Orthopedic and Traumatology   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Atlantoaxial instability; Cervical spine; Odontoid anterior fixation; Odontoid fractures; Transarticular screws

Indexed keywords

DEVICE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; ODONTOID PROCESS FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ARTHRODESIS; ATLAS; BONE SCREW; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN ABSCESS; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FRACTURE HEALING; INJURY SCALE; JOINT STIFFNESS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; ODONTOID PROCESS; ORTHOSIS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PEDICLE SCREW; PSEUDARTHROSIS; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE STABILIZATION; ADULT; AGE; FEMALE; FRACTURE NONUNION; INJURY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE FRACTURE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BONE SCREWS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, MALUNITED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODONTOID PROCESS; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL FRACTURES;

EID: 21244497319     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2005.06.015     Document Type: Article

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