Implantation of a distractible titanium cage after cervical corpectomy: Technical experience in 20 consecutive cases

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 148, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1173-1180

  Payer, M ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cage; Cervical spine; Corpectomy; Distractible

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; CERVICAL CORPECTOMY; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISTRACTABLE CORPECTOMY CAGE; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMPLANT; KYPHOSIS; LORDOSIS; MALE; MORBIDITY; NECK PAIN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PEDICLE SCREW; PLATE FIXATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE SURGERY; SPINE TUMOR; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SPINAL OSTEOPHYTOSIS; TITANIUM; TRACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33845204079     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-006-0871-9     Document Type: Article

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