Preventive effect of artificial ligamentous stabilization on the upper adjacent segment impairment following posterior lumbar interbody fusion

Spine

Volumn 34, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 2775-2781

  Imagama, Shiro ^a   Kawakami, Noriaki ^b   Matsubara, Yuji ^c   Kanemura, Tokumi ^d   Tsuji, Taichi ^b   Ohara, Tetsuya ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Meijo Hospital   (Japan)

^c Toyota Kai Medical Corporation Kariya Toyota General Hospital   (Japan)

^d Aichi Prefectural Welfare Federation of Agriculture Co operative Associations Konan Kosei Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adjacent segment impairment; Prevention of transition syndrome; Rigid spine fusion; Soft stabilization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LIGAMENT PROSTHESIS; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR LUMBAR INTERBODY FUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE FUSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE STABILIZATION; TRANSITION SYNDROME; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE SCREWS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; JOINT INSTABILITY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL STENOSIS;

EID: 74249087254     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181b4b1c2     Document Type: Article

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