Occipitocervical contoured rod stabilization: Does it still have a role amidst the modern stabilization techniques?

Neurology India

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 363-368

  Kalra, Samir ^a   Jain, Vijendra ^a   Jaiswal, Awadesh ^a   Behari, Sanjay ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Atlantoaxial dislocation; Contoured rod; Craniovertebral junction; Posterior fusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATLANTOAXIAL DISLOCATION; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPINE DISLOCATION; CHIARI 1 MALFORMATION; CHIARI FROMMEL SYNDROME; CONTOURED ROD; CONTOURED ROD STABILIZATION; CRANIOVERTEBRAL JUNCTION; CRANIOVERTEBRAL JUNCTION TUBERCULOSIS; DEVICE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; JOINT STABILITY; LIQUORRHEA; LISTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK PAIN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPINE POSTERIOR FUSION; SURGICAL INFECTION; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS;

EID: 36549030772     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.33317     Document Type: Article

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