Review: Complications of minimally invasive spinal surgery

Neurosurgery

Volumn 51, Issue 5 SUPPL., 2002, Pages 26-36

  Perez Cruet, Mick J ^a   Fessler, Richard G ^a,c   Perin, Noel I ^b  

^a Chicago Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroresearch   (United States)

^b ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Endoscopic; Laparoscopic; Minimally invasive; Spine; Thoracoscopic

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; BURN; CERVICAL SPINE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; INTESTINE INJURY; LAMINECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; LUMBAR SPINE; LUNG INJURY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKILL; SPINE FUSION; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL RISK; SYMPATHECTOMY; THORACIC SPINE; THORACOSCOPY; URETER INJURY;

EID: 0036870770     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200211002-00005     Document Type: Review

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