Adjacent segment degeneration following spinal fusion for degenerative disc disease

Bulletin of the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-36

  Levin, David A ^c   Hale, James J ^c   Bendo, John A ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

^c NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CERVICAL SPINE; DETERIORATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; KYPHOSIS; LORDOSIS; LUMBAR SPINE; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE FUSION; SPINE INSTABILITY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

BIOMECHANICS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISKECTOMY; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; SACRUM; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FUSION; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS;

EID: 33947224694     PISSN: 19369719     EISSN: 19369727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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