Adjacent level degeneration after anterior cervical fusion: A clinical review

Neurosurgery Clinics of North America

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 575-587

  Bartolomei, Juan C ^a,b   Theodore, Nicholas ^c   Sonntag, Volker K H ^c  

^a Neurosurgeon Spine Team Texas   (United States)

^b Harris Methodist for Diagnostics and Surgery   (United States)

^c BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; BIOMECHANICS; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPINE ADJACENT SEGMENT DEGENERATION; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LAMINECTOMY; LAMINOPLASTY; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SYMPTOM;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HUMANS; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL OSTEOPHYTOSIS;

EID: 28844483402     PISSN: 10423680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nec.2005.07.004     Document Type: Review

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