Spinal instrumentation for interfacet locking injuries of the subaxial cervical spine

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 49-52

  Mizuno, Junichi ^a   Nakagawa, Hiroshi ^a   Inoue, Tatsushi ^a   Nonaka, Yasuomi ^a   Song, Joonsuk ^a   Romli, Tiya M ^a  

^a AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arthrodesis; Bilateral interfacet locking; Skull traction; Spinal instrumentation; Unilateral interfacet locking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; MALE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE INJURY;

ADULT; AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC FIXATION DEVICES; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; SKULL; SPINAL INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRACTION;

EID: 33751433944     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2005.11.052     Document Type: Article

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