Vulnerability of great medullary artery

Spine

Volumn 21, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 1852-1855

  Lu, Jike ^a   Ebraheim, Nabil A ^a   Biyani, Ashok ^a   Brown, Jeffrey A ^a   Yeasting, Richard A ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

anatomy; arteria medullaris magna; arteria radicularis magna; artery of Adamkiewicz; great medullary artery; intercostal artery; spinal cord; surgical approach; thoracic spine

Indexed keywords

ARTERY; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; VERTEBRA BODY;

AORTA, THORACIC; ARTERIES; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; SPINAL CORD; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 0029759660     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199608150-00003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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