Injuries of the cervical spine in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: Experience at two trauma centers

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 33-45

  Einsiedel, Thomas ^a   Schmelz, Andreas ^b   Arand, Markus ^b   Wilke, Hans Joachim ^b   Gebhard, Florian ^b   Hartwig, Erich ^b   Kramer, Michael ^b   Neugebauer, Rainer ^b   Kinzl, Lothar ^b   Schultheiss, Markus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Ankylosing spondylitis; Anterior posterior stabilization; Cervical spine; Implant failure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTERY RUPTURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPINE SURGERY; THERAPY DELAY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; CONVALESCENCE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FOLLOW UP; INJURY; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE FRACTURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748472140     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/spi.2006.5.1.33     Document Type: Article

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