Iatrogenic fractures in ankylosing spondylitis - A report of two cases

European Spine Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 100-104

  Ruf, Michael ^a   Rehm, Sascha ^a   Poeckler Schoeniger, Christiane ^a   Merk, Harry R ^b   Harms, Juergen ^a  

^a Klinikum Karlsbad Langensteinbach   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ankylosing spondylitis; Cervical spine fracture; Iatrogenic fracture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPINE DISLOCATION; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; IMPLANTATION; KYPHOSIS; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE MOBILITY; SPINE SURGERY; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; THORAX SURGERY; TRACTION THERAPY; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADULT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL STENOSIS; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 32044460381     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-005-0973-8     Document Type: Article

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