Complications associated with surgical stabilization of high-grade sacral fracture dislocations with spino-pelvic instability

Spine

Volumn 31, Issue 11 SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Bellabarba, Carlo ^a   Schildhauer, Thomas A ^b   Vaccaro, Alexander R ^c   Chapman, Jens R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cauda equina; Lumbopelvic; Pelvis fracture; Sacral dislocation; Sacral fracture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTHRODESIS; AVULSION INJURY; BONE SCREW; CAUDA EQUINA; CHRONIC OSTEOMYELITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FRACTURE DISLOCATION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HUMAN; INFECTION; LOW BACK PAIN; NERVE INJURY; NERVE ROOT INJURY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SACRAL PLEXUS INJURY; SACRUM FRACTURE; SPINE FRACTURE; TREATMENT FAILURE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; DISLOCATIONS; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, MALUNITED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SACRUM; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 33646816762     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000217949.31762.be     Document Type: Review

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