Accuracy and interobserver agreement for determinations of rabbit posterolateral spinal fusion

Spine

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1308-1313

  Yee, Albert Juang Ming ^a,b   Bae, Hyun W ^a,b   Friess, Darin ^b   Robbin, Mark ^a   Johnstone, Brian ^a,b   Yoo, Jung U ^a,b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Bone graft; Interobserver agreement; Spine fusion

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; POSTEROLATERAL SPINE FUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SPINE FUSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPONDYLODESIS;

ANIMALS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; OBSERVER VARIATION; RABBITS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL FUSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2942689226     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.BRS.0000127184.43765.61     Document Type: Article

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