Preliminary experience of titanium mesh cages for pathological fracture of middle and lower cervical vertebrae

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1210-1215

  Chuang, Hao Che ^a   Wei, Sung Tai ^a   Lee, Han Chung ^a   Chen, Chun Chung ^a   Lee, Wen Yuen ^a   Cho, Der Yang ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anterior cervical plates; Cervical metastases; Cervical reconstruction; Corpectomy; Interbody fusion; Japanese Orthopedic Association Scale (JOAS) score; Titanium mesh cage

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CERAMICS; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; METASTASIS; OPERATION DURATION; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PLATE FIXATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPINE STABILIZATION; X RAY FILM;

ADULT; AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SURGICAL MESH; TITANIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 53349168912     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2007.11.011     Document Type: Article

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