Video-assisted thoracic corpectomy and spinal reconstruction: A biomechanical analysis of open versus endoscopic technique

Journal of Spinal Disorders

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 453-459

  Connolly, Patrick J ^a   Clem, Michael F ^b   Kolata, Ronald ^b   Ordway, Nat ^a   Zheng, Yinggang ^a   Yuan, Hansen ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ETHICON INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Endoscopic spine surgery; Thoracic corpectomy; Video assisted thoracic surgery (VATS)

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EPIDURAL SPACE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE METASTASIS; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWINE; TELEVISION CAMERA; THORACIC SPINE; THORACOTOMY;

ANIMALS; ENDOSCOPES; SPINAL CORD; SWINE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; THORACOSCOPES; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0030482568     PISSN: 08950385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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