Dynamic anterior cervical plates for multilevel anterior corpectomy and fusion with simultaneous posterior wiring and fusion: Efficacy and outcomes

Spinal Cord

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 432-439

  Epstein, N E ^a,b,c  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Long Island Neurosurgical Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cervical multilevel fusion; Dynamic plates outcomes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; BONE PLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MULTILEVEL ANTERIOR CORPECTOMY AND FUSION; MYELORADICULOPATHY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; SPINE SURGERY; TRACHEOSTOMY; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; BONE PLATES; BONE WIRES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADICULOPATHY; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL STENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745762499     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: 14765624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.sc.3101874     Document Type: Article

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