Axis fractures

Neurosurgery

Volumn 66, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2010, Pages

  Pryputniewicz, David M ^a   Hadley, Mark N ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATLANTOAXIAL FRACTURE DISLOCATION; AXIS BODY FRACTURE; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEVICE THERAPY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FIXATION DEVICE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE IMMOBILIZATION; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ODONTOID PROCESS FRACTURE; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKELETON TRACTION; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERAPY EFFECT;

ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT; AXIS; BONE SCREWS; BRACES; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; ODONTOID PROCESS; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 77649174604     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000366118.21964.A8     Document Type: Review

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