Long-term follow-up results in patients with cervical disk disease treated by cervical anterior fusion using titanium cage implants

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 440-446

  Hida, Kazutoshi ^a   Iwasaki, Yoshinobu ^a   Yano, Shunsuke ^a   Akino, Minoru ^b   Seki, Toshitaka ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Sapporo Azabu Neurosurgical Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior fusion; Cervical disk disease; Long term follow up; Titanium cage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL CERVICAL SPINE SCALE; OSTEOPHYTE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RANGE OF MOTION; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TITANIUM CAGE IMPLANT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RADICULOPATHY; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; TIME; TIME FACTORS; TITANIUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55949102991     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.48.440     Document Type: Article

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