Surgical Strategies and Choosing Levels for Spinal Deformity: How High, How Low, Front and Back

Neurosurgery Clinics of North America

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 329-337

  Mok, James M ^a   Hu, Serena S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE SPECIFIC CARE; AGED; CASE REPORT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FLATBACK DEFORMITY; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHEUERMANN DISEASE; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; HUMANS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 34249786847     PISSN: 10423680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nec.2007.01.008     Document Type: Review

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