The management of acute thoracolumbar burst fractures with anterior corpectomy and Z-plate fixation

Spine

Volumn 29, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 1901-1908

  McDonough, Paul W ^a   Davis, Rick ^b   Tribus, Clifford ^b   Zdeblick, Thomas A ^b,c  

^a Orthopedic Associates   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior reconstruction; Burst fracture; Internal fixation; Neurologic deficit; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ARTICLE; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; CORPECTOMY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE HEALING; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HUMAN; KYPHOSIS; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PLATE FIXATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPINE SURGERY; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TREATMENT INDICATION; Z PLATE FIXATION;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE PLATES; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; BRACES; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; INTERNAL FIXATORS; KYPHOSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER, NEUROGENIC;

EID: 4444350486     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000137059.03557.1d     Document Type: Article

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