Internal thoracic vessels used as pedicle graft for anastomosis with vascularized bone graft to reconstruct C7-T3 spinal defects: A new technique

Spine

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 601-605

  Hu, Hai ^a,b   Winters, Henri A H ^a   Paul, Rick M A ^a   Wuisman, Paul I J M ^a,c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cervicothoracic junction; Free vascularized fibula grafts; Internal thoracic vessels; Reconstruction surgery; Tumors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; BONE REMODELING; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FIBULA GRAFT; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; KYPHOSIS; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE SURGERY; SPINE TUMOR; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC SPINE; TUBERCULOSIS; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHILD; FEMALE; FIBULA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KYPHOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, SPINAL; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VEINS;

EID: 33947163379     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000256383.29014.42     Document Type: Article

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