Mid- to long-term outcome of instrumented anterior cervical fusion for subaxial injuries

European Spine Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 630-653

  Koller, Heiko ^a,d   Reynolds, Jeremy ^c   Zenner, Juliane ^b   Forstner, Rosemarie ^a   Hempfing, Axel ^b   Maislinger, Iris ^a   Kolb, Klaus ^d   Tauber, Mark ^a   Resch, Herbert ^a   Mayer, Michael ^a   Hitzl, Wolfgang ^a  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b German Scoliosis Center   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d Katharinenhospital ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Cervical spine; Injury; Instrumentation; Outcome; Subaxial

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DONOR SITE; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; LORDOSIS; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE FUSION; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIOMECHANICS; BONE PLATES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; HUMANS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL INJURIES; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67349186934     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-008-0879-3     Document Type: Article

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