Intraoperative malposition of pedicle probe or screws: A potential cause of the acceleration of degeneration in superior adjacent intervertebral disc

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1102-1104

  Ma, Jianjun ^a   Fan, Shunwu ^a   Zhao, Fengdong ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJACENT SEGMENT DEGENERATION; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; DISEASE COURSE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; PEDICLE SCREW; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PUNCTURE; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE FUSION; SURGICAL ERROR;

HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORTHOPEDIC FIXATION DEVICES; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 80755189974     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2011.09.012     Document Type: Article

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