Thoracic vertebrectomy and reconstruction using a microsurgical thoracoscopic approach

Neurosurgery

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 279-293

  Dickman, Curtis A ^a   Rosenthal, Daniel ^b   Karahalios, Dean G ^a   Paramore, Christopher G ^a   Mican, Camilla A ^a   Apostolides, Paul J ^a   Lorenz, Rudiger ^b   Sonntag, Volker K H ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endoscopy; Spinal fixation; Spinal reconstruction; Therapeutic spinal fusion; Thoracic spinal fractures; Thoracic tumors; Thoracic vertebrectomy; Thoracoscopy; Vertebral osteomyelitis; Video assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROSURGERY; OSTEOMYELITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE SURGERY; SPINE TUMOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC SPINE; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRA; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

ADULT; AGED; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGERY, PLASTIC; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; THORACOSCOPY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030061713     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199602000-00010     Document Type: Article

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