Neurological and functional outcome after unstable cervicothoracic junction injury treated by posterior reduction and synthesis

Spine Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 507-513

  Lenoir, Thibaut ^a   Hoffmann, Etienne ^a   Thevenin Lemoine, Camille ^a   Lavelle, Guillaume ^a   Rillardon, Ludovic ^a   Guigui, Pierre ^a  

^a BEAUJON HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Cervicothoracic junction; Fracture; Osteosynthesis; Spine

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE SCREW; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHAGIA; FALLING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE FIXATION; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG INJURY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE FUSION; SPINE INJURY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRACHEOTOMY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE PLATES; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33747361290     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2005.12.010     Document Type: Article

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