The management of complex soft-tissue defects after spinal instrumentation

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series B

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 8-15

  Singh, Kern ^a   Samartzis, D ^b   Heller, J G ^c   An, H S ^a   Vaccaro, A R ^d  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIABETES CONTROL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MUSCLE FLAP; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; OMENTUM; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SPINE METASTASIS; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE FLAP; TISSUE GRAFT; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL CORD; SPINE; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 31144472762     PISSN: 0301620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.88B1.16837     Document Type: Review

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