Surgical treatment of the osteoporotic spine with bone cement-injectable cannulated pedicle screw fixation: Technical description and preliminary application in 43 patients

Clinics

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 114-119

  Dai, Fei ^a   Liu, Yaoyao ^b   Zhang, Fei ^a   Sun, Dong ^a   Luo, Fei ^c   Zhang, Zehua ^a   Xu, Jianzhong ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Degenerative lumbar surgery; Lumbar stenosis; Osteoporosis; Pedicle screw; PMMA

Indexed keywords

BONE CEMENT; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ADULT; AGED; CEMENTATION; DEVICES; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURES; PEDICLE SCREW; PROCEDURES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINE FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE CEMENTS; CEMENTATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURES; PEDICLE SCREWS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84924960109     PISSN: 18075932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6061/clinics/2015(02)08     Document Type: Article

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