Diagnostic imaging of spinal fusion and complications

Applied Radiology

Volumn 38, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 14-28

  Hayeri, Mohammad Reza ^a   Tehranzadeh, Jamshid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STAINLESS STEEL; TITANIUM;

ABSCESS; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTHRODESIS; ARTIFACT; BONE ATROPHY; BONE GRAFT; BONE PLATE; BONE SCREW; BRAIN EDEMA; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICAL BONE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISKITIS; DYSPHAGIA; ECHOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOMENINGOCELE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE NONUNION; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMPLANT; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISEASE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; KIRSCHNER WIRE; KYPHOSIS; LARYNGEAL NERVE; LEUKOCYTE; LUMBAR SPINE; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MYELOGRAPHY; NERVE PARALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; OSTEOSCLEROSIS; PEDICLE SCREW; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; PSEUDARTHROSIS; REVIEW; SCINTISCANNING; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SPONDYLOLYSIS; SUBLUXATION; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; THORACIC SPINE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE;

EID: 68949103555     PISSN: 01609963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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