Efficacy and safety of the use of titanium mesh cages and anterior cervical plates for interbody fusion after anterior cervical corpectomy

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 464-471

  Chuang, Hao Che ^a   Cho, Der Yang ^a   Chang, Cheng Siu ^a   Lee, Wen Yuen ^a   Jung Chung, Chen ^a   Lee, Han Chung ^a   Chen, Chun Chung ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anterior cervical plates; Cervical reconstruction; Corpectomy; Interbody fusion; Titanium mesh cage

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM PHOSPHATE CERAMIC; TITANIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ARTICLE; BONE ATROPHY; BONE GRAFT; BONE PLATE; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPINE DISLOCATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; CORPECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILIAC CREST; MALE; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; NECK PAIN; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADICULOPATHY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SAFETY; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPINE SURGERY; SPONDYLOSIS; TITANIUM MESH CAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; SURGICAL MESH; TITANIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33646051179     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2005.12.021     Document Type: Article

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