Follow-up of patients with delayed union after posterior fusion with pedicle screw fixation

Spine

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 786-791

  Tokuhashi, Yasuaki ^a   Ajiro, Yasumitsu ^a   Umezawa, Natsuki ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Delayed union; Pedicle screw fixation; Posterior lumbar interbody fusion; Posterolateral lumbar fusion; Pseudarthrosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED UNION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; ILIAC BONE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; PEDICLE SCREW; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RANGE OF MOTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE FUSION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE SCREWS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 41749089621     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31816956f7     Document Type: Article

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