Morphometric evaluation of subaxial cervical vertebrae for surgical application of transpedicular screw fixation

Spine

Volumn 29, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 1876-1880

  Bozbuga, Mustafa ^a   Ozturk, Adnan ^b   Ari, Zafer ^b   Sahinoglu, Kayihan ^b   Bayraktar, Bulent ^b   Cecen, Aycicek ^a  

^a DR LUTFI KIRDAR KARTAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cervical spine; Morphometric analysis; Pedicle screw fixation; Surgical anatomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL TRANSPEDICULAR SCREW FIXATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MASS; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL ANATOMY; VERTEBRA BODY;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BONE SCREWS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HUMANS; REFERENCE VALUES; TURKEY;

EID: 4444238161     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000137065.62516.01     Document Type: Article

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