Wound-peritoneal shunts: part of the complex management of anterior dural lacerations in patients with ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 630-634

  Epstein, Nancy E ^a,b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cervical corpectomy; Dural laceration repair; Lumboperitoneal shunts; OPLL; Wound peritoneal

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE; MICROCRYSTALLINE COLLAGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR DURAL LACERATION; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KYPHOSIS; LACERATION; LIGAMENT CALCINOSIS; LUMBOPERITONEAL SHUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SHUNTING; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; TISSUE GRAFT; WOUND PERITONEAL SHUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; DURA MATER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOLLOW UP; INJURY; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONEAL CAVITY; SPINE FUSION;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; DURA MATER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSSIFICATION OF POSTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT; PERITONEAL CAVITY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL FUSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 75649112307     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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