Accuracy of pedicle screw placement in the lumbosacral spine using conventional technique: Computed tomography postoperative assessment in 102 consecutive patients - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 306-313

  Amato, Vincenzo ^a   Giannachi, Luigi ^a   Irace, Claudio ^a   Corona, Claudio ^a  

^a Ist Naz Neurologico C C Besta D Dipto di Neurochirurgia Via Celoria 11 20133   (Italy)

Author keywords

Pedicle screw; Screw misplacement; Spinal fusion; Spinal instrumentation; Transpedicular screw fixation

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DURAL LACERATION; FLUOROSCOPY; FRACTURE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INCIDENCE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LACERATION; LIQUORRHEA; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVE ROOT INJURY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OSTEOMYELITIS; PEDICLE SCREW; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RADICULAR PAIN; SPINE FUSION; SPINE INSTABILITY; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SURGEON; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TRANSPEDICULAR SCREW;

BONE SCREWS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SACRUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77649159270     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.9.SPINE09261     Document Type: Article

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