Biomechanical comparison of anterior, posterior, and circumferential fixation after one-level anterior cervical corpectomy in the human cadaveric spine

Spine

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Karam, Youssef R ^a   Dahdaleh, Nader S ^a   Magnetta, Michael J ^b   Kim, Byeong Sam ^b   Lim, Tae Hong ^b   Serhan, Hassan ^c   Torner, James C ^b   Hitchon, Patrick W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c Johnson Johnson Company   (United States)

Author keywords

cervical corpectomy; circumferential fixation; facet capsule disruption; posterior fixation; posterior ligament disruption anterior fixation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTERIOR FIXATION; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CIRCUMFERENTIAL SPINE FIXATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; PLATE FIXATION; POSTERIOR SPINE FIXATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SPINE MOBILITY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPINE SURGERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; MALE;

EID: 79953809818     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181f38f8b     Document Type: Article

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