Assessment of symptomatic rod fracture after posterior instrumented fusion for adult spinal deformity

Neurosurgery

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 862-867

  Smith, Justin S ^a   Shaffrey, Christopher I ^a   Ames, Christopher P ^b   Demakakos, Jason ^c   Fu, Kai Ming G ^d   Keshavarzi, Sassan ^e   Y Li, Carol M ^b   Deviren, Vedat ^b   Schwab, Frank J ^c   Lafage, Virginie ^c   Bess, Shay ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult; Complication; Fracture; Instrumentation failure; Pedicle subtraction osteotomy; Spinal deformity; Surgery

Indexed keywords

STAINLESS STEEL; TITANIUM;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOTOMY; PEDICLE SUBTRACTION OSTEOTOMY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; POSTERIOR INSTRUMENTED FUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE FUSION; SPINE MALFORMATION; SYMPTOMATIC ROD FRACTURE;

ADULT; AGED; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOTOMY; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CURVATURES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL FUSION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84866916364     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3182672aab     Document Type: Article

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