Surgical management of acute odontoid fractures: Surgery-related complications and long-term outcomes in a consecutive series of 97 patients

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 682-690

  Rizvi, Syed Ali Mujtaba ^a   Fredø, Hege Linnerud ^b   Lied, Bjarne ^b   Nakstad, Per Hjalmar ^a,b   Rønning, Pål ^b   Helseth, Eirik ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Fusion rate.; Odontoid fracture; Outcome; Surgery; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; GROUPS BY AGE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NECK PAIN; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ODONTOID PROCESS FRACTURE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTERIOR SPINE FUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPINE SURGERY; STIFF NECK; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NORWAY; ODONTOID PROCESS; RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE FRACTURE; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME;

AGED; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NORWAY; ODONTOID PROCESS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84862655982     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318236b675     Document Type: Article

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