C2-fractures: Part II. A morphometrical analysis of computerized atlantoaxial motion, anatomical alignment and related clinical outcomes

European Spine Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1135-1153

  Koller, Heiko ^a   Acosta, Frank ^b   Forstner, Rosemarie ^a   Zenner, Juliane ^c   Resch, Herbert ^a   Tauber, Mark ^a   Lederer, Stefan ^a   Auffarth, Alexander ^a   Hitzl, Wolfgang ^a  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c German Scoliosis Center   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atlantoaxial motion; C2 fracture; Cervical spine; Clinical outcome; Functional outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATLANTOAXIAL JOINT; BONE PAIN; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE SCREW; BRACE; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE DISLOCATION; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; JOINT MOBILITY; MALE; NEURALGIA; ODONTOID PROCESS FRACTURE; OSTEOMETRY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; ROTATION; SHORT FORM 36; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT; AXIS; BONE SCREWS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODONTOID PROCESS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL FUSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

EID: 69549133593     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-009-0901-4     Document Type: Article

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