Lumbar diskectomy in a human-habituated mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei)

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 205-210

  Aryan, Henry E ^a,d   Jandial, Rahul ^a   Nakaji, Peter ^a   Greenberg, Mark S ^b   Janssen, Don L ^c   Huang, Johnson ^c   Taylor, William R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at San Diego   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diskectomy; Gorilla; Lumbar; Neurosurgery; Spine; Spine surgery; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GORILLA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM; LIMB WEAKNESS; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; LUMBAR SPINE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; VERTEBRAL CANAL; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND INFECTION; WOUND IRRIGATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; APE DISEASES; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; GORILLA GORILLA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE;

EID: 30444441964     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2004.12.011     Document Type: Article

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