Segmental polymethylmethacrylate-augmented pedicle screw fixation in patients with bone softening caused by osteoporosis and metastatic tumor involvement: A clinical evaluation

Neurosurgery

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 531-537

  Frankel, Bruce M ^a   Jones, Tanya ^a   Wang, Chiang ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Metastasis; Osteoporosis; Pedicle screw augmentation; Polymethylmethacrylate; Spinal fracture

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST ADENOCARCINOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEATH; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXEMIA; INSTRUMENTATION; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; OSTEOMALACIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PEDICLE SCREW; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RADICULOPATHY; RADIOGRAPHY; SAFETY; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE DENSITY; BONE SCREWS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; SPINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34548823221     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000290899.15567.68     Document Type: Article

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