Cervical Total Disk Replacement: Complications and Avoidance

Orthopedic Clinics of North America

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 97-107

  Salari, Behnam ^a,b   McAfee, Paul C ^a,b  

^a St Joseph's Hospital   (United States)

^b Orthopaedic Associates of Towson   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical total disk replacement; Complications; Indications

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

BIOMECHANICS; CERVICAL TOTAL DISK REPLACEMENT; DONOR SITE; DURA MATER TEAR; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHONIA; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KINEMATICS; MORBIDITY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PELVIS FRACTURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RADICULOPATHY; RANGE OF MOTION; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE FUSION; SPONDYLOSIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FUSION; TOTAL DISC REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 82655171743     PISSN: 00305898     EISSN: 15581373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocl.2011.08.006     Document Type: Review

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