Long-term results after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with allograft and plating: A 5- to 11-year radiologic and clinical follow-up study

Spine

Volumn 30, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 2138-2144

  Yue, Wai Mun ^a,c   Brodner, Wolfram ^b,c   Highland, Thomas R ^c  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Columbia Spine Centre ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Adjacent level disease; Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion; Cervical alignment; Implant complications

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DONOR SITE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISEASE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; KYPHOSIS; LORDOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PLATE FIXATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE SURGERY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BONE PLATES; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISKECTOMY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; KYPHOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FUSION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 26444548021     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000180479.63092.17     Document Type: Review

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