The best surgical treatment for type II fractures of the dens is still controversial

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 469, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 742-750

  Denaro, Vincenzo ^a   Papalia, Rocco ^a   Di Martino, Alberto ^a   Denaro, Luca ^b   Maffulli, Nicola ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; APNEA; ARTERY INJURY; BONE SCREW; BRACE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DECUBITUS; DYSPHAGIA; ENDOPROSTHESIS LOOSENING; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; HEART ARREST; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; LIQUORRHEA; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MENINGITIS; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ODONTOID PROCESS FRACTURE; PHARYNGITIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RANGE OF MOTION; REHABILITATION CARE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL PAIN; SPINE FUSION; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; CONVALESCENCE; DATA BASE; FRACTURE FIXATION; INJURY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; ODONTOID PROCESS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; SPINE FRACTURE;

BONE SCREWS; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; ODONTOID PROCESS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL FUSION; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAUMA, NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 79953021391     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-010-1677-x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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