Microsurgical nerve root canal widening without fusion for lumbosacral intervertebral foraminal stenosis: Technical notes and early results

Spinal Cord

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 644-650

  Baba, Hisatoshi ^a   Uchida, Kenzo ^a   Maezawa, Yasuhisa ^a   Furusawa, Nobuaki ^a   Okumura, Yasuhiro ^a   Imura, Shinichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Intervertebral foramen; Lumbar radiculopathy; Lumbosacral spine; Microsurgery; Stenosis; Surgical decompression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; MICROSURGERY; NERVE ROOT; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE SURGERY; STENOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VERTEBRA;

EID: 0029846125     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sc.1996.116     Document Type: Article

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