Surgical simulation of instrumented posterior occipitocervical fusion in a child with congenital skeletal anomaly: Case report

Spine

Volumn 31, Issue 17, 2006, Pages

  Yamazaki, Masashi ^a   Akazawa, Tsutomu ^a   Koda, Masao ^a   Okawa, Akihiko ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Craniovertebral junction; Pedicle screw; Surgical simulation; Three dimensional full scale model; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL COORDINATION DISORDER; DYSPLASIA; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTED POSTERIOR OCCIPITOCERVICAL FUSION; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; PEDICLE SCREW; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SKELETON MALFORMATION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; X RAY FILM;

ATLANTO-OCCIPITAL JOINT; BONE NAILS; BONE SCREWS; BONE WIRES; BRACES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LAMINECTOMY; MODELS, ANATOMIC; SPINAL FUSION; SPINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748077449     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01. brs.0000229221.57036.98     Document Type: Article

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