Poor surgical technique in cervical plating leading to vertebral artery injury and brain stem infarction - Case report

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 221-225

  Cho, Ki Hong ^a   Shin, Yong Sam ^a   Yoon, Soo Han ^a   Kim, Se Hyuk ^a   Ahn, Young Hwan ^a   Cho, Kyung Gi ^a  

^a Ajou University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Brain stem infarction; Cervical fracture; Lateral mass plating; Vertebral artery occlusion

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; ARTERY INJURY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; BONE SCREW; BRAIN STEM INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPINE DISLOCATION; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSARTHRIA; FORAMEN MAGNUM; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VERTEBRAL ARTERIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADULT; BONE PLATES; BRAIN STEM INFARCTIONS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISLOCATIONS; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; MALE; SPINAL FRACTURES; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 23744453887     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2004.09.042     Document Type: Article

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