Current techniques of decompression of the lumbar spine

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 384, Issue , 2001, Pages 75-81

  Benz, Robert J ^a   Garfin, Steven R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE SCREW; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SPINE FUSION; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISKECTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL STENOSIS;

EID: 0035291189     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-200103000-00010     Document Type: Article

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