AOSpine thoracolumbar spine injury classification system: Fracture description, neurological status, and key modifiers

Spine

Volumn 38, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 2028-2037

  Vaccaro, Alexander R ^a   Oner, Cumhur ^b   Kepler, Christopher K ^a   Dvorak, Marcel ^c   Schnake, Klaus ^d   Bellabarba, Carlo ^e   Reinhold, Max ^f   Aarabi, Bizhan ^g   Kandziora, Frank ^d   Chapman, Jens ^h   Shanmuganathan, Rajasekaran ⁱ   Fehlings, Michael ^j   Vialle, Luiz ^k  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d BG Unfallklinik Frankfurt Am Main   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

ⁱ GANGA HOSPITAL   (India)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^k PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

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Author keywords

accuracy; agreement study; consensus development; reliability; spinal injury classification; thoracolumbar

Indexed keywords

AOSPINE THORACOLUMBAR SPINE INJURY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; CONSENSUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE INJURY; TENSION BAND DISRUPTION; VERTEBRA DISLOCATION;

CONSENSUS; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 84887317171     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3182a8a381     Document Type: Article

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