Surgery for neck pain

Neurosurgery

Volumn 60, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Wieser, Eric S ^a   Wang, Jeffrey C ^b  

^a Arlington Orthopedic Associates   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical fusion; Cervical spondylosis; Natural history; Neck pain

Indexed keywords

ATLANTOAXIAL JOINT; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISKOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NECK PAIN; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SPINE FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; X RAY; CERVICAL SPINE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISKECTOMY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NECK PAIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846134755     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000215376.14375.D     Document Type: Review

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