Delayed fracture of fibular strut allograft following multilevel anterior cervical spine corpectomy and fusion

Spine

Volumn 31, Issue 17, 2006, Pages

  Jones, Jackson ^a   Yoo, Jung ^a   Hart, Robert ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cervical fusion; Bone banking; Complications; Myelopathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; ANTERIOR CERVICAL SPINE CORPECTOMY; ANTERIOR CERVICAL SPINE FUSION; ARTICLE; BONE ALLOGRAFT; CASE REPORT; DONOR; FEMALE; FIBULA; FIBULA FRACTURE; FRACTURE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; OSTEOPOROSIS; POSTERIOR INSTRUMENTED FUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; FIBULA; FRACTURES, STRESS; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; SPINAL FUSION; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 33748087824     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000229253.17108.03     Document Type: Article

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