Ultrasound-guided spinal fracture repositioning, ligamentotaxis, and remodeling after thoracolumbar burst fractures

Spine

Volumn 31, Issue 20, 2006, Pages

  Mueller, Lutz Arne ^a   Degreif, Jürgen ^b   Schmidt, Rainer ^a   Pfander, David ^a   Forst, Raimund ^a   Rommens, Pol Maria ^c   Mueller, Lars Peter ^c   Rudig, Lothar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Clinic of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intraoperative ultrasound; Ligamentotaxis; Remodeling; Thoracolumbar burst fractures

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE REMODELING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SPINE FRACTURE; ULTRASOUND; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; VERTEBRAL CANAL; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BONE REMODELING; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, NEUROLOGICAL; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; LIGAMENTS, ARTICULAR; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL STENOSIS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33748856392     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000237012.83128.80     Document Type: Article

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