Outcome of surgical and nonsurgical methods in the treatment of unstable traumatic lesions of the lower cervical spine

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 157-160

  Farrokhi, Majid Reza ^a   Motallebi, Hasan ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Lower cervical spine; Outcome; Unstable traumatic lesions

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE DISLOCATION; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; IRAN; MALE; PLASTER CAST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPINE FUSION; SPINE SURGERY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRACTION THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASTS, SURGICAL; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247555398     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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