Video-assisted thoracic diskectomy and anterior release: A biomechanical analysis of an endoscopie technique

Orthopedics

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 923-926

  Connolly, P J ^a,c   Ordway, N R ^a   Sacks, Todd ^a   Kolata, R ^b   Yuan, H A ^b  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Fethicon Endo Surgery   (United States)

^c AID   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; NONHUMAN; OPERATION DURATION; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWINE;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; DISKECTOMY; EVALUATION STUDIES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SWINE; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 0032740877     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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