Use of ventral plates for cervical arthrodesis

Neurosurgery

Volumn 60, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Resnick, Daniel K ^a   Trost, Gregory R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthrodesis; Cervical spondylosis; Instrumentation; Spinal fusion

Indexed keywords

ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; CERVICAL ARTHRODESIS; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPINE DISLOCATION; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; DATA BASE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; MEDLINE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE FUSION; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE DISEASE; STATISTICS;

ARTHRODESIS; BONE PLATES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISKECTOMY; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PUBMED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 33846073929     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000215350.95209.CA     Document Type: Article

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