A new dorsal modular fixation device allows a modified approach in cervical and cervico-thoracic neoplastic lesions

European Spine Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 222-228

  Huch, K ^a   Cakir, B ^a   Dreinliofer K ^a   Puhl, W ^a   Richter, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cervical spine; Dorsal instrumentation; Malignant; Osteolysis; Tumor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE ATROPHY; BONE SCREW; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER PATIENT; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; LUNG CARCINOMA; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PLASMACYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE METASTASIS; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; THORACIC SPINE;

AGED; BONE SCREWS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OSTEOLYSIS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 2442713769     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-003-0656-2     Document Type: Article

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