Anterior Subaxial Cervical Spine Fixation Using a Plate With Single Screw Per Vertebral Body: A Simple and Efficient Construct-Clinical Series and a Cadaver Study (original) (raw)

Abstract

Anterior cervical approach to disk disease of cervical spine was developed by Robinson and Smith and later described by Cloward who also developed several instruments to facilitate the procedure. [1],[2] Over past half century the procedure had undergone technical ...

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