Five-year follow-up examination after purely minimally invasive posterior stabilization of thoracolumbar fractures: A comparison of minimally invasive percutaneously and conventionally open treated patients

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 335-343

  Wild, Michael H ^a   Glees, Markus ^b   Plieschnegger, Corinna ^b   Wenda, Klaus ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DR HORST SCHMIDT KLINIKEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dislocations; Internal fixators; Minimally invasive surgical procedures; Outcomes, assessment; Spinal fractures

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; OPEN REDUCTION; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHORT FORM 36; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VERTEBRA BODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 34250664648     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-006-0264-9     Document Type: Article

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