Marking wire placement for improved accuracy in thoracic spinal surgery

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 119, Issue , 2014, Pages 100-105

  Ahmadi, Sebastian A ^a   Slotty, Philipp J ^a   Schröter, Catharina ^b   Kröpil, Patric ^a   Steiger, Hans Jakob ^a   Eicker, Sven O ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Localization; Marking wire; Radiation exposure; Spine; Thoracic; Wrong level surgery

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EMPYEMA; EPENDYMOMA; EPIFASCIAL EMPYEMA; FEMALE; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; LIPOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARKING WIRE; MENINGIOMA; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEURILEMOMA; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SARCOMA; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL WIRE; THORACIC SPINE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

LOCALIZATION; MARKING WIRE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPINE; THORACIC; WRONG-LEVEL SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION INJURIES; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; SPINAL DISEASES; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896730573     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: 18726968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2014.01.025     Document Type: Article

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