Posterior/anterior combined surgery for thoracolumbar burst fractures - Posterior instrumentation with pedicle screws and laminar hooks, anterior decompression and strut grafting

Spinal Cord

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 573-579

  Machino, M ^a   Yukawa, Y ^a   Ito, K ^a   Nakashima, H ^a   Kato, F ^a  

^a CHUBU ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

anterior strut grafting; posterior instrumentation; posterior anterior combined surgery; prospective study; surgical outcomes; thoracolumbar burst fractures

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR DECOMPRESSION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BONE GRAFT; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; KYPHOSIS; LAMINAR HOOK; LORDOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILIZATION; OPERATION DURATION; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; PEDICLE SCREW; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; STRUT GRAFTING; THORACOLUMBAR BURST FRACTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL FUSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953303195     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: 14765624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sc.2010.159     Document Type: Article

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