Treatment of unstable thoracolumbar junction burst fractures with short- or long-segment posterior fixation in magerl type a fractures

European Spine Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1145-1155

  Altay, Murat ^a,b   Ozkurt, Bülent ^a   Aktekin, Cem Nuri ^a   Ozturk, Akif Muhtar ^a   Dogan, Özgür ^a   Tabak, A Yalçin ^a  

^a ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Classification; Short long; Spinal instrumentation; Thoracolumbar fracture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; LONG SEGMENT POSTERIOR FIXATION; MAGERL TYPE A FRACTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SHORT SEGMENT POSTERIOR FIXATION; SPINE FRACTURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSTABLE THORACOLUMBAR JUNCTION BURST FRACTURE;

ADULT; BONE SCREWS; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36148956722     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-007-0310-5     Document Type: Article

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