Microsurgical cervical nerve root decompression by anterolateral approach

Neurosurgery

Volumn 58, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages

  Bruneau, Michaël ^a,b   Cornelius, Jan Frédérick ^a   George, Bernard ^a  

^a HÔPITAL LARIBOISIÈRE   (France)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cervical spine; Disc herniation; Operative technique; Spondylosis; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

ARTHRODESIS; ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; BONE RESECTION; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MICROSURGERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; NERVE ROOT; NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; SAFETY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644633575     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000193521.98836.C5     Document Type: Article

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