Management of Adjacent Segment Disease After Cervical Spinal Fusion

Orthopedic Clinics of North America

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 53-62

  Kepler, Christopher K ^a   Hilibrand, Alan S ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjacent segment disease; Management; Spinal fusion; Total disk replacement

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADJACENT SEGMENT DISEASE; ANTERIOR CERVICAL DECOMPRESSION AND FUSION; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; CERVICAL SPINAL FUSION; CERVICAL SPINE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPONDYLOSIS; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADICULOPATHY; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; SPINAL FUSION; SPONDYLOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TOTAL DISC REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 82655171745     PISSN: 00305898     EISSN: 15581373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocl.2011.08.003     Document Type: Review

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