Imaging assessment of lumbar pedicle screw placement: Sensitivity and specificity of plain radiographs and computer axial tomography

Spine

Volumn 32, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1450-1453

  Brooks, Dahari ^a   Eskander, Mark ^a   Balsis, Steve ^b   Ordway, Nat ^c   Connolly, Patrick ^a  

^a UMASS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Cadaveric lumbar spine; Diagnostic study; Imaging methods; Pedicle screw placement

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING; LITERATURE; LUMBAR SPINE; PEDICLE SCREW; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

BONE SCREWS; CADAVER; DISSECTION; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL FUSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34249900462     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e318060cc88     Document Type: Article

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