Atlantoaxial transarticular screw fixation: Update on technique and outcomes in 269 patients

Neurosurgery

Volumn 66, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2010, Pages

  Finn, Michael A ^a   Apfelbaum, Ronald I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantoaxial fusion; C1 C2 fusion; Surgical technique; Transarticular screw

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTERY INJURY; ARTHRODESIS; ATLANTOAXIAL DISLOCATION; ATLANTOAXIAL TRANSARTICULAR SCREW FIXATION; BONE SCREW; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; GASTROSTOMY; HEART INFARCTION; HERNIA; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; JOINT STABILITY; LIQUORRHEA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; PELVIS FRACTURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT; AXIS; BONE SCREWS; CERVICAL ATLAS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; JOINT INSTABILITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEURONAVIGATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649092467     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000365798.53288.A3     Document Type: Review

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