Vertebral artery injury during cervical spine surgery: A survey of more than 5600 operations

Spine

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 779-785

  Neo, Masashi ^a   Fujibayashi, Shunsuke ^a   Miyata, Masahiko ^a   Takemoto, Mitsuru ^a   Nakamura, Takashi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior cervical decompression; Atlantoaxial transarticular screw fixation; Complication; Embolization; Vertebral artery injury

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPINE SURGERY; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY INJURY;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INCIDENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 41749096599     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31816957a7     Document Type: Article

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