Adjacent-level vertebral body fractures after expandable cage reconstruction: Report of 4 cases

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 584-588

  Chou, Dean ^a,b   Lu, Daniel C ^a   Weinstein, Philip ^a   Ames, Christopher P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical spine; Expandable cage; Fracture; Lumbar spine; Vertebral body

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORPECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KYPHOSIS; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPINE SURGERY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VERTEBRA BODY; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE PLATES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 45149115405     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/SPI/2008/8/6/584     Document Type: Article

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