Anterior and antero-lateral surgery of the lower cervical spine. (Twenty five years after H. Verbiest). Part two: Indications, results, complications;Chirurgie anterieure et antero-laterale du rachis cervical inferieur (Vingt-cinq and apres H. Verbiest)

Neurochirurgie

Volumn 42, Issue 4-5, 1996, Pages 229-248

  Brunon, J ^a   Fuentes, J M ^b   Azan, F ^c   Benezech, J ^c   Duthel, R ^c   Fotso, M J ^c   George, B ^c   Lapras, Ch ^c   Lesoin, F ^c   Robert, G ^c  

^a SERVICE DE NEUROLOGIE   (France)

^b Clinique Rech   (France)

^c NONE

Author keywords

anterior cervical surgery; cervical spine; discectomy; osteosynthesis; vertebral interbody fusion

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SPINE TUMOR; CERVICAL SPINE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL ROOT; SPINE DISEASE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 0030321101     PISSN: 00283770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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