Postoperative bedrest improves the alignment of thoracolumbar burst fractures treated with the AO spinal fixator

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 215-220

  Dang, Yen ^a,b   Yen, David ^a   Hopman, Wilma M ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BED REST; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERNAL FIXATOR; KYPHOSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILIZATION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE FUSION; VERTEBRA; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BED REST; COHORT STUDIES; EARLY AMBULATION; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; KYPHOSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL FUSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; WEIGHT-BEARING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649185927     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: 14882310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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