Avoidance of wrong-level thoracic spine surgery: Intraoperative localization with preoperative percutaneous fiducial screw placement. Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 280-284

  Upadhyaya, Cheerag D ^a   Wu, Jau Ching ^a,b,c   Chin, Cynthia T ^a   Balamurali, Gopalakrishnan ^a   Mummaneni, Praveen V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fiducial screw; Intraoperative localization; Percutaneous; Thoracic spine; Wrong level

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIDUCIAL MARKER; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; OPERATING ROOM; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SPINE SURGERY; THORACIC SPINE; X RAY FILM;

BONE SCREWS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLES; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL DISEASES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84863258490     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2011.3.SPINE10445     Document Type: Article

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