Minimally invasive atlantoaxial fixation with a polyaxial screw-rod construct: Technical case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 58, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2006, Pages

  Joseffer, Seth S ^a   Post, Nicholas ^a   Cooper, Paul R ^a   Frempong Boadu, Anthony K ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Neurosurgery ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantoaxial joint; Joint instability; Minimally invasive; Spinal fusion

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; ATLANTOAXIAL JOINT; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; CHRONIC PAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FRACTURE FIXATION; HAND PARESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; JOINT INSTABILITY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NECK PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ODONTOID PROCESS; PEDICLE SCREW; PERIOSTEUM GRAFT; POLYAXIAL SCREW ROD CONSTRUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRACTOR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKIN INCISION; SPINAL CORD; SPINE FUSION; THORACIC SPINE; ADULT; BONE SCREW; CHRONIC DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT; BONE SCREWS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; NECK PAIN; ODONTOID PROCESS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 33646203355     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000208955.12461.C7     Document Type: Article

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