The safety of fluoroscopically-assisted thoracic pedicle screw instrumentation for spine trauma

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1047-1052

  Bransford, Richard ^a   Bellabarba, Carlo ^a   Thompson, Jason H ^a   Henley, M Bradford ^a   Mirza, Sohail K ^a   Chapman, Jens R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone screws; Intraoperative complications; Postoperative complications; Spinal fractures; Thoracic vertebrae

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL LANDMARK; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; FLUOROSCOPY; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PEDICLE SCREW; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE INJURY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC SPINE; TRACHEA INJURY;

BONE SCREWS; COHORT STUDIES; DISLOCATIONS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGISTRIES; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL FUSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 33646862793     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000215949.95089.18     Document Type: Article

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