When and how to operate on thoracic and lumbar spine fractures?

European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 443-451

  Soultanis, Konstantinos C ^a   Mavrogenis, Andreas F ^a   Starantzis, Konstantinos A ^a   Markopoulos, Christos ^a   Stavropoulos, Nikolaos A ^a   Mimidis, George ^a   Kokkalis, Zinon T ^a   Papagelopoulos, Panayiotis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Lumbar spine; Non surgical treatment; Outcome; Spinal fractures; Surgical treatment; Thoracic spine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE DISLOCATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; KYPHOPLASTY; KYPHOSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL STIFFNESS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGICAL DETERIORATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OSWESTRY DISABILITY INDEX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE INJURY; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPINE SURGERY; THORACIC SPINE; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND INFECTION; DISABILITY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MIDDLE AGED; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPINAL FRACTURES; VERTEBRA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KYPHOPLASTY; KYPHOSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL FUSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 84899904229     PISSN: 16338065     EISSN: 14321068     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00590-013-1341-8     Document Type: Article

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