Cervical crossing laminar screws: Early clinical results and complications

Neurosurgery

Volumn 61, Issue 5 SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages

  Wang, Michael Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Lois Pope LIFE Center D4 6 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Arthrodesis; Axis; Cervical spine; Complications

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATLANTOAXIAL DISLOCATION; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BONE SCREW; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NECK PAIN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OCCIPITAL BONE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT INDICATION; VERTEBRAL CANAL;

ADULT; AGED; ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT; BONE SCREWS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37349021761     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000303987.49870.7b     Document Type: Article

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