Medical and congenital comorbidities associated with spinal deformities in the immature spine

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages 34-41

  Ferguson, Ronney L ^a  

^a Navapache Regional Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; GARLIC EXTRACT; GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT; GINSENG EXTRACT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; KETOROLAC; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PHENYTOIN;

ACHONDROPLASIA; ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; BLEEDING; BLEEDING DISORDER; BONE DYSPLASIA; CERVICAL SPINE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DIASTEMATOMYELIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOWN SYNDROME; DRUG USE; EHLERS DANLOS SYNDROME; HAJDU CHENEY SYNDROME; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; HURLER SYNDROME; INFANT; INFECTION; JARCHO LEVIN SYNDROME; KLIPPEL FEIL SYNDROME; LARSEN SYNDROME; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION; MALNUTRITION; MARFAN SYNDROME; MAROTEAUX LAMY SYNDROME; MORQUIO SYNDROME; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; OSTEOMALACIA; POLYDACTYLY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGERIA; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN GRAFT; SKIN NECROSIS; SPASTICITY; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPINE SURGERY; SYNDROME DELINEATION; SYRINGOMYELIA; TETHERED CORD SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE DYSFUNCTION; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; TRISOMY 8; UROGENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; HUMANS; SCOLIOSIS;

EID: 33846813637     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.F.01003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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