Experience with combined video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) anterior spinal release and posterior spinal fusion in Scheuermann's kyphosis

Spine

Volumn 30, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 2176-2181

  Herrera Soto, José A ^a   Parikh, Shital N ^a   Al Sayyad, Mohamed J ^a   Crawford, Alvin H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Junctional kyphosis; Posterior fusion; Scheuermann's kyphosis; Thoracoscopy; Video assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BODY POSTURE; BRACE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; KYPHOSIS; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOCENTESIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; KYPHOSIS; MALE; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCHEUERMANN'S DISEASE; SPINAL FUSION; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 26444579310     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000180476.08010.c1     Document Type: Article

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