Unstable burst fractures of the thoraco-lumbar junction: Treatment by posterior bisegmental correction/fixation and staged anterior corpectomy and titanium cage implantation

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 299-306

  Payer, M ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Burst fracture; Combined approach; Spine; Thoracolumbar

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; KYPHOSIS; LORDOSIS; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE INSTABILITY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE FRACTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRA BODY;

ADULT; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; KYPHOSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINAL CANAL; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL FUSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TIME FACTORS; TITANIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644745525     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-005-0681-5     Document Type: Article

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