Anterior Cervical Discectomy, Fusion and stabilization by plate and screw-early experience

Bangladesh Medical Research Council Bulletin

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 62-66

  Islam, M A ^a   Habib, M A ^a   Sakeb, N ^a  

^a BANGABANDHU SHEIKH MUJIB MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CERVICAL DISCECTOMY AND FUSION; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BONE GRAFT; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; CERVICAL SPONDYLOTIC MYELOPATHY; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDICLE SCREW; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; SPINE PLATE; SPINE STABILIZATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; BONE PLATE; BONE SCREW; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADICULOPATHY; SPINE FUSION; SPONDYLOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BANGLADESH; BONE PLATES; BONE SCREWS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RADICULOPATHY; SPINAL FUSION; SPONDYLOSIS;

EID: 84872048083     PISSN: 03779238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3329/bmrcb.v38i2.12884     Document Type: Article

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