The role of instrumentation in the degenerative lumbar spine

Current Opinion in Orthopaedics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 148-153

  Vostrejs, Michael ^a,b   Ozuna, Richard ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

EID: 0032764008     PISSN: 10419918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001433-199904000-00011     Document Type: Review

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