Long term outcome and adjacent disc degeneration after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with titanium cylindrical cages

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 151, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 303-309

  Sugawara, Taku ^a,b   Itoh, Yasunobu ^a   Hirano, Yoshitaka ^a   Higashiyama, Naoki ^a   Mizoi, Kazuo ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AKITA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adjacent disc disease; Anterior cervical discectomy; Fusion; Long term outcome; Titanium cages

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERNAL FIXATORS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOLOGY; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; TIME; TITANIUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67349195496     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-009-0217-5     Document Type: Article

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