The rationale for cervical disc arthroplasty

Techniques in Orthopaedics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 84-87

  Hsu, Wellington K ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjacent segment degeneration; Cervical disc arthroplasty; Clinical outcomes; Radiculopathy

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ARTHROPLASTY; BIOMECHANICS; CERVICAL DISC ARTHROPLASTY; CERVICAL DISC PROSTHESIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; MORBIDITY; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTHESIS; PROSTHESIS MATERIAL; RADICULOPATHY; RANGE OF MOTION; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE SURGERY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 77953513717     PISSN: 08859698     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BTO.0b013e3181df2f62     Document Type: Review

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