Techniques of posterior C1-C2 stabilization

Neurosurgery

Volumn 60, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Menendez, Jose A ^a   Wright, Neill M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantoaxial joint; Cervical spondylosis; Outcome; Rheumatoid arthritis; Spinal fusion; Trauma; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ARTERY INJURY; ATLANTOAXIAL JOINT; BONE SCREW; CERVICAL SPINE; HUMAN; KYPHOSIS; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; JOINT INSTABILITY; METHODOLOGY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATHOLOGY;

BONE SCREWS; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; JOINT INSTABILITY;

EID: 33846123337     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000249220.50085.E4     Document Type: Review

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