Assessment of injury to the posterior ligamentous complex in thoracolumbar spine trauma

Spine Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 524-528

  Vaccaro, Alexander R ^a   Lee, Joon Y ^b   Schweitzer Jr , Karl M ^a   Lim, Moe R ^c   Baron, Eli M ^d   Oner F C ^e   Hulbert, R John ^f   Hedlund, Rune ^g   Fehlings, Michael G ^h   Arnold, Paul ⁱ   Harrop, James ^a   Bono, Christopher M ^j   Anderson, Paul A ^k   Anderson, D Greg ^a   Harris, Mitchel B ^l   Spine Trauma Study Group, ^m  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^g KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^j BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^l BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^m NONE

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Author keywords

Classification; Instability; Posterior ligamentous injury; Survey; Thoracolumbar trauma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE INJURY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE;

CONSENSUS; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM; LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENTS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; SPINAL INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33747344516     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2006.01.017     Document Type: Article

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