Nuances of occipitocervical fixation

Neurosurgery

Volumn 66, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2010, Pages

  Lu, Daniel C ^a   Roeser, Andrew C ^a   Mummaneni, Valli P ^a   Mummaneni, Praveen V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Occipitocervical fixation; Occipitocervical fusion; Occipitocervical instability

Indexed keywords

ISOFLURANE; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL; ROCURONIUM;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTERY INJURY; ARTHRODESIS; ATLANTOAXIAL SUBLUXATION; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL JOINT; BONE PLATE; BONE SCREW; BRAIN HEMANGIOMA; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CEREBELLUM INJURY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; FLUOROSCOPY; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; JOINT DISLOCATION; JOINT FRACTURE; JOINT INSTABILITY; JOINT RADIOGRAPHY; LIQUORRHEA; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENINGITIS; NERVE ROOT INJURY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATING ROOM; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SKIN INCISION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; SUPINE POSITION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VIDEORECORDING; WALKING DIFFICULTY; WOUND INFECTION;

ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT; ATLANTO-OCCIPITAL JOINT; CERVICAL ATLAS; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; JOINT INSTABILITY; OCCIPITAL BONE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SKULL BASE; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 77649112707     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000365744.54102.B9     Document Type: Review

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