Total subaxial reconstruction: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 424-434

  Traynelis, Vincent C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical fusion; Cervical spine; Deformity; Instrumentation; Myelopathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KYPHOSIS; LENGTH OF STAY; LIMB PAIN; LIQUORRHEA; LORDOSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; NECK PAIN; PNEUMONIA; RADICULOPATHY; SPINE SURGERY; TOTAL SUBAXIAL RECONSTRUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WOUND INFECTION; BONE PLATE; BONE SCREW; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISABILITY; INFECTION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NECK; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE FUSION; SURGERY; VERTEBRA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE PLATES; BONE SCREWS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFECTION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADICULOPATHY; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SPINAL FUSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77957957219     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.4.SPINE09923     Document Type: Article

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