Intraoperative cervical epidurography: A simple modality for assessing the adequacy of decompression during anterior cervical procedures - Technical note

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 96-99

  Hejazi, Nedal ^a,b   Witzmann, Alfred ^a,b   Hassler, Werner ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Klinikum Duisburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anterior cervical discectomy; Anterior cervical fusion; Radiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPECTOMY; DECOMPRESSION; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISKECTOMY; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MIDDLE AGED; RADICULOPATHY;

EID: 0037218790     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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