Surgical vs nonoperative treatment of Hadley type IIA odontoid fractures

Clinical Neurosurgery

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 676-682

  Aldrian, Silke ^a   Erhart, Jochen ^a   Schuster, Rupert ^a   Wernhart, Simon ^a   Domaszewski, Florian ^a   Ostermann, Roman ^a   Widhalm, Harald ^a   Platzer, Patrick ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Hadley type IIA subtype; Odontoid fractures; Outcome; Surgical vs nonoperative treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE OUTCOMES QUESTIONNAIRE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CUSHING DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FALLING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE NONUNION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HADLEY TYPE IIA ODONTOID FRACTURE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODONTOID PROCESS FRACTURE; OSTEOPOROSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK FACTOR; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPINE SURGERY; THYROID DISEASE; TIME; TOBACCO USE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT FAILURE; VERY ELDERLY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; BONE SCREW; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FACTUAL DATABASE; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; ODONTOID PROCESS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE FUSION; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE SCREWS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; ODONTOID PROCESS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84866179624     PISSN: 00694827     EISSN: 0148396X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e318235ade1     Document Type: Article

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