The importance of preserving disc structure in surgical approaches to lumbar disc herniation

Spine

Volumn 21, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 1556-1564

  Mochida, Joji ^a   Nishimura, Kazuhiro ^a   Nomura, Takeshi ^a   Toh, Eiren ^a   Chiba, Masahiro ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

herniotomy; lumbar disc herniation; nucleus pulposus; percutaneous nucleotomy; preservation of the disc structure

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HERNIOTOMY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 0029900692     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199607010-00014     Document Type: Article

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