Preoperative localization of herniated thoracic discs using myelo-CT guided transpleural puncture: Technical note

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-26

  Cornips, Erwin ^a   Beuls, Emile ^a   Geskes, Gijs ^a   Janssens, Maurice ^a   Aalst, Jasper ^a   Hofman, Paul ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Discectomy; Herniated disc; Myelography; Preoperative procedures; Video assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOHEXOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PLEURA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE; SURGEON; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC SPINE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846420975     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-006-0223-3     Document Type: Article

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