Percutaneous Endoscopic Cellular Transplantation into the Lower Lumbar Spinal Cord

Neurosurgery

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 950-955

  Casas, Carlos E ^a   Guest, James D ^b,c   Benzel, Edward C ^d   Hadley, Mark N ^d   Marion, Donald W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Cell transplantation; Endoscopy; Lumbar spine; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

FIXATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 1842587691     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000115673.14729.7D     Document Type: Article

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