Does smoking influence fusion rates in posterior cervical arthrodesis with lateral mass instrumentation?

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 469, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 696-701

  Eubanks, Jason David ^a   Thorpe, Steven W ^b   Cheruvu, Vinay K ^c   Braly, Brett A ^b   Kang, James D ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTHRODESIS; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; ILIAC CREST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MYELORADICULOPATHY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTERIOR CERVICAL ARTHRODESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RADICULOPATHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; WORK; ARTICLE; BONE REGENERATION; CERVICAL SPINE; DRUG EFFECT; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN;

ARTHRODESIS; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSSEOINTEGRATION; PAIN; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RADICULOPATHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL STENOSIS;

EID: 79953021398     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-010-1575-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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