OUR COMPLICATIONS İN VERTEBRAL FRACTURES TREATED WITH ALICI SPINAL INSTRUMENTATION
Journal Title: Journal of Turkish Spinal Surgery - Year 1993, Vol 4, Issue 4
Abstract
Between June 1990 and June 1994, seventy-eight vertebral fractures were treated with Alıcı Spinal İnstrumentation in the İst. Orthopaedics and Traumatology Clinic of Ankara numune Hospital. Mean follow-up duration was 24 monlhs. İn the follow-up, infection was found in 9 cases (11.5%), breakage of transpedicular screvvs in 5 cases (6.4%), dislodgment of transpedicular screvvs in 3 cases (3.8%). One patient died of anesthetic compiications postopera-tively.
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C. GÖKÇE, Ş. ŞENEL, K. ÖZLÜ, M. GÜLÇEK
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