Posterior atlanto-axial arthrodesis for fixation of odontoid nonunions

Spine

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 624-630

  Platzer, Patrick ^a   Vécsei, Vilmos ^a   Thalhammer, Gerhild ^a   Oberleitner, Gerhard ^a   Schurz, Mark ^a   Gaebler, Christian ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Odontoid nonunions; Outcome; Posterior atlanto axial arthrodesis

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; ATLANTOAXIAL JOINT; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIXATION FAILURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE IMMOBILIZATION; FRACTURE NONUNION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NECK PAIN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ODONTOID PROCESS FRACTURE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE FUSION; SPINE MOBILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRODESIS; ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT; ATLAS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODONTOID PROCESS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 41349086193     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e318166dfb8     Document Type: Article

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