Experience in the surgical management of 82 symptomatic herniated thoracic discs and review of the literature

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 623-633

  Stillerman, Charles B ^a   Chen, Thomas C ^a   Couldwell, William T ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Weiss, Martin H ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Disc herniation; Discectomy; Thoracic disc; Thoracic microdiscectomy; Thoracic spine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LAMINECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; THORACIC SPINE;

EID: 0031895313     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.1998.88.4.0623     Document Type: Article

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