Injuries to the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve during spine surgery

Spine

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1266-1269

  Mirovsky, Yigal ^a   Neuwirth, Michael ^b  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Lateral femoral cutaneous nerve; Meralgia paresthetica; Neurapraxia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; MALE; MERALGIA PARESTHETICA; NERVE COMPRESSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL CANCER; SKIN NERVE; SPINE SURGERY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILIUM; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; NEURALGIA; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSOAS MUSCLES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SPINAL DISEASES; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034657821     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-200005150-00011     Document Type: Article

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