Microsurgical Therapy of Symptomatic Lumbar Juxta Facet Cysts

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 349-353

  Oertel, M F ^a   Ryang, Y ^a   Ince, A ^a   Gilsbach, J M ^a   Rohde, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ganglion cyst; Juxta facet cyst; Microsurgery; Synovial cyst

Indexed keywords

DURA MATER TEAR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DURA MATER; FEMALE; FINNESON AND COOPER OUTCOME SCALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GANGLION CYST; HUMAN; INJURY; LAMINECTOMY; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR JUXTA FACET CYST; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MICROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARESIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADICULOPATHY; RATING SCALE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SPINE TUMOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYNOVIAL CYST; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GANGLION CYSTS; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SYNOVIAL CYST; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

EID: 1442266567     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-812501     Document Type: Review

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