Learning curve for placement of thoracic pedicle screws in the deformed spine

Neurosurgery

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 290-294

  Samdani, Amer F ^a   Ranade, Ashish ^a   Saldanha, Vilas ^b   Yondorf, Menacham Z ^a  

^a SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis; Computed tomography; Surgeon experience; Thoracic pedicle

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONEUROLOGY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; IMPLANTATION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; SPINE FUSION; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPINE SURGERY; SURGEON; THORACIC PEDICLE SCREW;

ADOLESCENT; BONE SCREWS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL FUSION; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 75749088429     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000363853.62897.94     Document Type: Article

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