Complication Avoidance: Thoracolumbar and Lumbar Burst Fractures

Neurosurgery Clinics of North America

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 377-388

  Heary, Robert F ^a   Salas, Sussan ^a   Bono, Christopher M ^b   Kumar, Sanjeev ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

CHRONOTHERAPY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORBIDITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PEDICLE SCREW; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE INJURY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL CANAL;

DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL FUSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 33746265160     PISSN: 10423680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nec.2006.04.012     Document Type: Review

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