Relationship of neural axis level of injury to motor recovery and health-related quality of life in patients with a thoracolumbar spinal injury

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 92, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1591-1599

  Kingwell, Stephen P ^a   Noonan, Vanessa K ^a   Fisher, Charles G ^a   Graeb, Douglas A ^b   Keynan, Ory ^c   Zhang, Hongbin ^a   Dvorak, Marcel F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUDA EQUINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONUS MEDULLARIS; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPINAL CORD; SPINE INJURY; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE INJURY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; VERTEBRA;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 77955085546     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.I.00512     Document Type: Article

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