Design of the PROCON trial: A prospective, randomized multi - Center study comparing cervical anterior discectomy without fusion, with fusion or with arthroplasty

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Bartels, Ronald H M A ^a   Donk, Roland ^b   Van Der Wilt, Gert Jan ^a   Grotenhuis, J André ^a   Venderink, Dick ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b CANISIUS WILHELMINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTHROPLASTY; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISPLACEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADICULOPATHY; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPINAL FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

EID: 33751169373     PISSN: 14712474     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-7-85     Document Type: Article

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