"free-hand" technique for thoracolumbar pedicle screw instrumentation: Critical appraisal of current "state-of-Art"

Neurology India

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 715-721

  Mattei, Tobias A ^a   Meneses, Murilo S ^a   Milano, Jeronimo B ^a   Ramina, Ricardo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE NEUROLOGIA DE CURITIBA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Free hand technique; Pedicle anatomy; Pedicle screw instrumentation; Posterior spinal fixation; Thoracolumbar fractures

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONEUROLOGY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; NEUROIMAGING; NEURONAVIGATION; OSTEOTOMY; PEDICLE SCREW; REVIEW; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE;

BONE SCREWS; HUMANS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 77249148879     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.59465     Document Type: Review

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