Cervical spondylosis: Ventral or dorsal surgery

Neurosurgery

Volumn 60, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Witwer, Brian P ^a   Trost, Gregory R ^a,b  

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

^b University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical spondylosis; Cervical vertebrae; Dorsal surgery; Myelopathy; Ventral surgery

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; LAMINOPLASTY; LIGAMENT CALCINOSIS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE MOBILITY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPINE SURGERY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SPONDYLOSIS;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL OSTEOPHYTOSIS;

EID: 33846180331     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000215351.32372.CE     Document Type: Review

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