Anterior decompression via a wide transvertebral approach and a ceramic insert in a patient with cervical degenerative disease

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 127-133

  Kim, Kyongsong ^a,b   Isu, Toyohiko ^a   Sugawara, Atsushi ^a   Matsumoto, Ryoji ^a   Isobe, Masanori ^a  

^a KUSHIRO ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior decompression; Ceramic; Cervical spine; Vertebral body; Without fusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; BONE ATROPHY; BONE GRAFT; BONE SCREW; CERAMIC PROSTHESIS; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HETEROTOPIC OSSIFICATION; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; KYPHOSIS; LIGAMENT CALCINOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE ROOT; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; REOPERATION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE FUSION; SPINE INSTABILITY; SPONDYLOSIS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL SAW; SYMPTOM; TRANSVERTEBRAL APPROACH; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VERTEBRA BODY;

ADULT; AGED; BONE SCREWS; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CERAMICS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RADICULOPATHY; REOPERATION; SPINAL CANAL; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846288895     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2006.06.059     Document Type: Article

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