Surgical treatment of spondylodiscitis in the cervical spine: A minimum 2-year follow-up

European Spine Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1380-1387

  Heyde, Christoph E ^a,b   Boehm, Heinrich ^a   El Saghir, Hesham ^a   Tschöke, Sven K ^b   Kayser, Ralph ^a,b  

^a Zentralklinik Bad Berka ^*  (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cervical spine; Spinal fusion; Spinal infection; Spondylodiscitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SPINE INSTABILITY; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPONDYLODESIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE PLATES; BONE SCREWS; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DEBRIDEMENT; DISCITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OSTEOMYELITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748612753     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-006-0191-z     Document Type: Article

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