Anterior cervical discectomy without fusion or instrumentation: 25 years' experience

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 314-317

  Savitz, Martin H ^a,b  

^a Department of Medical Imaging Services   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical vertebra; Intervertebral disc; Microsurgical technique

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE FUSION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034266985     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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