Operative treatment of 733 patients with acute thoracolumbar spinal injuries: Comprehensive results from the second, prospective, internet-based multicenter study of the Spine Study Group of the German Association of Trauma Surgery

European Spine Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1657-1676

  Reinhold, M ^a   Knop, C ^k   Beisse, R ^b   Audige L ^c   Kandziora, F ^d,e   Pizanis, A ^f   Pranzl, R ^g   Gercek, E ^h   Schultheiss, M ⁱ   Weckbach, A ^j   Buhren V ^b   Blauth, M ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b BG UNFALLKLINIK MURNAU   (Germany)

^c AO Clinical Investigation and Documentation   (Switzerland)

^d Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery   (Germany)

^e Center for Spine Surgery and Neurotraumatology   (Germany)

^f SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g Trauma Clinic Klagenfurt   (Austria)

^h UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ULM MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^k KATHARINENHOSPITAL   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Activities of daily living; Complications; Epidemiology; Follow up; Fracture; Multicenter study; Online database; Outcome; Prospective; Radiological findings; Rehabilitation; Spinal injuries; Spine; Spine Study Group (SSG) of the German Association of Trauma Surgery (DGU); Treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; BONE PLATE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNET; KYPHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAPLEGIA; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROTATION; SPINE INJURY; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TREATMENT DURATION; VERTEBRA BODY; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78349311588     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-010-1451-5     Document Type: Article

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