Long fusion from sacrum to thoracic spine for adult spinal deformity with sagittal imbalance: Upper versus lower thoracic spine as site of upper instrumented vertebra

Neurosurgical Focus

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Fujimori, Takahito ^a,b   Inoue, Shinichi ^a,c   Le, Hai ^a   Schairer, William W ^a   Berven, Sigurd H ^a   Tay, Bobby K ^a   Deviren, Vedat ^a   Burch, Shane ^a   Iwasaki, Motoki ^b   Hu, Serena S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult spinal deformity; Long fusion; Lower thoracic; Proximal junctional kyphosis; Sagittal imbalance; Upper thoracic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMAN; KYPHOSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SACRUM; SPINE FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRA;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; KYPHOSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SACRUM; SPINAL FUSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84901243326     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10920684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2014.3.FOCUS13541     Document Type: Article

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