Kümmell's disease: A case report and literature review

Spine

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Swartz, Karin ^a   Fee, Dominic ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Delayed; Intravertebral vacuum cleft; K mmell's disease; Osteonecrosis; Post traumatic; Vertebral body collapse

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BONE BIOPSY; BONE DESTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FALLING; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KUMMELL DISEASE; LIMB WEAKNESS; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEDICLE SCREW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE SURGERY; THORACIC SPINE; BIOPSY; INJURY; KYPHOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SPINE INJURY; VERTEBRA;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; BIOPSY; HUMANS; KYPHOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 41049115200     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181657f31     Document Type: Article

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