A novel minimally invasive technique for spinal cord untethering

Neurosurgery

Volumn 60, Issue 2 SUPPL.1, 2007, Pages

  Tredway, Trent L ^a   Musleh, Wael ^a   Christie, Sean D ^a   Khavkin, Yevginy ^a   Fessler, Richard G ^a   Curry, Daniel J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Fatty filum; Filum terminale; Minimally invasive surgery; Spinal dysraphism; Tethered cord syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; LEG PAIN; MICRODISSECTION; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TETHERED CORD SYNDROME; URODYNAMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; NEUROENDOSCOPY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 33846986319     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000249254.63546.D7     Document Type: Article

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