Halo-fixator vest - Indications and complications;Halo-Fixateur - Indikationen und Komplikationen

Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 54-59

  Strohm, P C ^a   Muller C A ^a   Kostler W ^a   Reising, K ^a   Sudkamp N P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cervical spine; Complications; Halo fixator; Halo vest

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; CERVICAL SPINE; EQUIPMENT; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE HEALING; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; OCCIPITAL BONE; ODONTOID PROCESS; PAIN; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMACYTOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKULL FRACTURE; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINE FRACTURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE SCREWS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL BONE; ODONTOID PROCESS; PAIN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PLASMACYTOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL FRACTURES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33847643206     PISSN: 0044409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-960479     Document Type: Article

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