Accuracy and complications of transpedicular C2 screw placement without the use of spinal navigation

European Spine Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 809-814

  Mueller, Christian Andreas ^a   Roesseler, Lukas ^a   Podlogar, Martin ^a   Kovacs, Attlila ^a   Kristof, Rudolf Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

C2 pedicle screw; Placement accuracy; Spinal navigation; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY COMPRESSION; ARTICLE; AXIS; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FRACTURE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENINGITIS; ODONTOID PROCESS FRACTURE; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PEDICLE SCREW; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINE INJURY; SPINE METASTASIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BONE SCREWS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHILD; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL FUSION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954536009     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-010-1291-3     Document Type: Article

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