A perspective for the selection of surgical approaches in patients with upper thoracic and cervicothoracic junction instabilities

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 454-463

  Kaya, Ramazan Alper ^a   Türkmenoǧlu, Osman Nuri ^a   Koç, Ömer Nadir ^a   Genç, Haci Ali ^a   Çavuçoǧlu, Halit ^a   Ziyal, Ibrahim Mustafa ^b   Aydin, Yunus ^a  

^a i ili Etfal Training and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cervicothoracic junction; Spinal stabilization; Supramanubrial cervical approach; Transmanubrial approach

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE FIXATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PAIN; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PLATE FIXATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PSEUDARTHROSIS; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE FUSION; SPINE INJURY; SPINE INSTABILITY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC SPINE; VERTEBRA BODY; CASE REPORT; INJURY; JOINT INSTABILITY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VERTEBRA;

ADULT; AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 33646830779     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2005.08.017     Document Type: Article

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