Superior mesenteric artery syndrome after scoliosis repair surgery: A case study and reassessment of the syndrome's pathogenesis

Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics Part B

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 345-349

  Hod Feins, Roei ^a   Copeliovitch, Leonel ^a   Abu Kishk, Ibrahim ^a   Eshel, Gideon ^a   Lotan, Gad ^a   Shalmon, Ehud ^a   Anekstein, Yoram ^a   Mirovsky, Yigal ^a   Masharawi, Youssef ^b  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis; Anterior spinal fusion; Superior mesentery artery syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CASE REPORT; DUODENUM OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOGENESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCOLIOSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL FUSION; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548404255     PISSN: 1060152X     EISSN: 14735865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BPB.0b013e32826d1d9b     Document Type: Article

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