Treatment of cervical degenerative disc disease - Current status and trends

Zentralblatt fur Neurochirurgie

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 113-124

  Korinth, Marcus C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anterior approach; Cervical disc disease; Fusion; Motion preservation; Posterior approach

Indexed keywords

ARTHRODESIS; ARTHROPLASTY; BONE GRAFT; BONE PLATE; CERVICAL INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; ILIAC CREST; IMMOBILIZATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LAMINECTOMY; LAMINOPLASTY; NECK PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADICULOPATHY; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRACTION THERAPY;

ARTHROPLASTY; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISCITIS; DISKECTOMY; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LAMINECTOMY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 51849153388     PISSN: 00444251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1081201     Document Type: Review

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