Is intraoperative CT of posterior cervical spine instrumentation cost-effective and does it reduce complications?

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 469, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1035-1041

  Hecht, Andrew C ^b   Koehler, Steven M ^a   Laudone, Janelle C ^a   Jenkins, Arthur ^a   Qureshi, Sheeraz ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; ISOCENTRIC C ARM THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEDICLE SCREW; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REIMBURSEMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE FUSION; SPINE SURGERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL COST; INCIDENCE; INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; PEROPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPONDYLOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE SCREWS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHILD; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INCIDENCE; INSURANCE, HEALTH, REIMBURSEMENT; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; SPINAL FUSION; SPONDYLOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955790335     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-010-1603-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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