Instrumented outpatient anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: Is it safe?

International Surgery

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 86-89

  Sheperd, Courtney S ^a   Young, William F ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Fort Wayne Neurological Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Fusion; Instrumented; Outpatient anterior cervical discectomy safe

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY SURGERY; CERVICAL SPINE; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADICULOPATHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SPINE FUSION; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISPLACEMENT; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADICULOPATHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84871235781     PISSN: 00208868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.9738/CC35.1     Document Type: Review

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