Morphological changes in the cervical intervertebral foramen dimensions with unilateral facet joint dislocation

Injury

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1157-1160

  Ebraheim, Nabil A ^a   Liu, Jiayong ^a   Ramineni, Satheesh K ^a   Liu, Xiaochen ^a   Xie, Joe ^a   Hartman, Ryan G ^a   Goel, Vijay K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Facet joint; Intervertebral foramen; Nerve injury; Unilateral facet dislocation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT; JOINT DISLOCATION; MALE; NERVE ROOT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNILATERAL FACET JOINT DISLOCATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; CADAVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISLOCATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JOINT INSTABILITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADICULOPATHY; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

EID: 70349410293     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2009.01.112     Document Type: Article

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