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Posterior Cervical Instrumentation and Fusion

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A variety of techniques have been developed for the internal fixation of the subaxial cervical spine through a posterior approach [1, 2]. These include interspinous wiring with bone graft, interlaminar clamps, hook plates, Daab plates, lateral mass metallic plates, and Harrington rod constructs.Before the advent of lateral mass screw fixation, interspinous wiring was commonly used for multilevel fixation.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Loma Linda University Medical Center, 92354, Loma Linda, CA, USA

    Farbod Asgarzadie

  2. Department of Spinal Surgery, National Rehabilitation Center, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, México Distrito Federal, Mexico

    Barón Zárate Kalfópulos MD

  3. Department of Neurosurgery, University of California-Los Angeles, Santa Monica Orthopedic and Neurosurgical Spine Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Vartan S. Tashjian MD, MS

  4. UCLA Santa Monica Hospital, Assistant Professor of Neurological & Orthopedic Surgery, University of California Los Angeles Comprehensive Spine Center, 90404, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Larry T. Khoo MD (Chief of Neurosurgery)

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Asgarzadie, F., Kalfópulos, B.Z., Tashjian, V.S., Khoo, L.T. (2009). Posterior Cervical Instrumentation and Fusion. In: Ozgur, B., Benzel, E., Garfin, S. (eds) Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-89831-5_5

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