Same-segment and adjacent-segment disease following posterior cervical foraminotomy

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 5-9

  Clarke, Michelle J ^a   Ecker, Robert D ^a   Krauss, William E ^a   McClelland, Robyn L ^a   Dekutoski, Mark B ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjacent segment disease; Cervical spine; Foraminotomy; Intervertebral disc

Indexed keywords

ADJACENT SEGMENT DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL FORAMINOTOMY; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINE SURGERY; SURVIVAL; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; RADICULOPATHY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SPINE DISEASE;

FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADICULOPATHY; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL DISEASES;

EID: 33847047923     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/spi.2007.6.1.2     Document Type: Article

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