Effect of lower two-level anterior cervical fusion on the superior adjacent level

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 336-340

  Park, Dong Hyuk ^a   Ramakrishnan, Prem ^b   Cho, Tai Hyoung ^a,f   Lorenz, Eric ^c   Eck, Jason C ^d   Humphreys, S Craig ^e   Lim, Tae Hong ^b  

^a Korea University Ansan Hospital   (South Korea)

^b University of Iowa   (United States)

^c RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d Memorial Hospital   (United States)

^e Center for Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics Chattanooga   (United States)

^f Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Adjacent segment disease; Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion; Cervical spine; Intravertebral disc; Spinal fusion

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE PLATE; CADAVER; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPINE ANTERIOR FUSION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; MEASUREMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; RANGE OF MOTION; SIMULATION; SPINE MOBILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; THORACIC SPINE;

BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HUMANS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SPINAL FUSION; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 34748922317     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/SPI-07/09/336     Document Type: Article

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