Mechanical patterns of cervical injury influence postoperative neurological outcome: A verification of the allen system

Spine

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Nakashima, Hiroaki ^a   Yukawa, Yasutsugu ^a   Ito, Keigo ^a   MacHino, Masaaki ^a   Kato, Fumihiko ^a  

^a CHUBU ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allen classifi cation; cervical spine; mechanism of injury; prognosis; spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ALLEN CLASSIFICATION; AMERICAN SPINAL INJURY ASSOCIATION IMPAIRMENT SCALE; ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; COMPRESSION; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FLEXOR REFLEX; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE ARTHRODESIS; SPINE SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION; WOUND IRRIGATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952993949     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181d99e8c     Document Type: Article

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