Direct reduction of thoracolumbar burst fractures by means of balloon kyphoplasty with calcium phosphate and stabilization with pedicle-screw instrumentation and fusion

Spine

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Korovessis, Panagiotis ^a   Repantis, Thomas ^a   Petsinis, George ^a   Iliopoulos, Panagiotis ^a   Hadjipavlou, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY GENERAL HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Balloon kyphoplasty; Calcium phosphate; Pedicle screw; Thoracolumbar vertebral fracture

Indexed keywords

BONE CEMENT; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; KYPHOPLASTY; KYPHOSIS; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OPERATION DURATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE FUSION; THORACOLUMBAR BURST FRACTURE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TREATMENT FAILURE; VERTEBRA BODY; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

BONE CEMENTS; BONE SCREWS; CALCIUM PHOSPHATES; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; KYPHOSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL FUSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 39649090067     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181646b07     Document Type: Article

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