Combined pre- and retrovascular extraoral approach for tumors at lateral mass of the atlas

Spine

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 129-136

  Yang, Xinghai ^a   Huang, Wengding ^a   Xiao, Jianru ^a   Wu, Zhipeng ^a   Feng, Dapeng ^a   Zheng, Wei ^a   Chen, Huajiang ^a   Liu, Tielong ^a   Xie, Ning ^a   Yuan, Wen ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

atlas; Bone tumors; craniocervical junction; extraoral approach; upper cervical spine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL JOINT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CHONDROSARCOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYSPHAGIA; EOSINOPHILIC GRANULOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GIANT CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH PAIN; NERVE INJURY; OSTEOBLASTOMA; OSTEOCHONDROMA; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PHARYNX DISEASE; PLASMACYTOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRE RETROVASCULAR EXTRAORAL APPROACH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVASCULAR EXTRAORAL APPROACH; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE TUMOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADULT; CERVICAL ATLAS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79551544161     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181ce1ac8     Document Type: Article

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