Cerebrospinal fluid leak during cervical corpectomy for ossified posterior longitudinal ligament: Incidence, management, and outcome

Spine

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 491-494

  Joseph, Vivek ^a   Kumar, G Samson Sujit ^a   Rajshekhar, Vedantam ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Cervical spine; CSF leak; Dural defect; OPLL; Surgery

Indexed keywords

GELATIN SPONGE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BED REST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FASCIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIGAMENT CALCINOSIS; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; POSTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SPINE SURGERY; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CERVICAL SPINE; DURA MATER; INCIDENCE; INJURY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBDURAL EFFUSION; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DURA MATER; FASCIA; FEMALE; GELATIN SPONGE, ABSORBABLE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSSIFICATION OF POSTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL STENOSIS; SUBDURAL EFFUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65549101694     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e318195d245     Document Type: Article

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