Surgical management of spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis in athletes: Indications and return to play

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35-40

  Radcliff, Kristen E ^a   Kalantar, S Babak ^a   Reitman, Charles A ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ATHLETE; BRACE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEDICLE SCREW; PREVALENCE; REHABILITATION CARE; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SPONDYLOLYSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67651208829     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/JSR.0b013e318194f89e     Document Type: Review

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