Evaluation of percutaneous surgery in the treatment of thoracolumbar fractures. Preliminary results of a prospective study on 65 patients

Orthopaedics and Traumatology: Surgery and Research

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-47

  Teyssedou S ^a   Saget, M ^a   Prebet R ^b   Leclercq, N ^a   Vendeuvre, T ^a   Pries, P ^a  

^a La Milétrie Teaching Hospital Center ^*  (France)

^b Spine Surgery Hospital Center   (France)

Author keywords

Fixation; Fractures; Kyphoplasty; Percutaneous; Thoracolumbar spine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KYPHOPLASTY; KYPHOSIS; LEG PAIN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OSWESTRY DISABILITY INDEX; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PERCUTANEOUS POSTERIOR OSTEOSYNTHESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL HEMATOMA; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE FRACTURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN THROMBOSIS; VERTEBRA BODY; VERTEBRAL SPINE KYPHOSIS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WORK RESUMPTION;

ADULT; AGED; BALLOON DILATION; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; HUMANS; KYPHOPLASTY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856601412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18770568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otsr.2011.08.009     Document Type: Article

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