When is a spine fused?

Injury

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 306-313

  Goldstein, Christina ^a   Drew, Brian ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

ACDF; Assessment; Interbody; Lumbar; Outcome; Posterolateral; Radiology; Spinal fusion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPINE FUSION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUMBAR SPINE; LUMBAR SPINE FUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE FUSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FUSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79751535470     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2010.11.041     Document Type: Article

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