Techniques for the Operative Management of Thoracic Disc Herniation: Minimally Invasive Thoracic Microdiscectomy

Orthopedic Clinics of North America

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 351-361

  Sheikh, Hormoz ^a   Samartzis, Dino ^b,c   Perez Cruet, Mick J ^a  

^a Michigan Head and Spine Institute   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RADIATION EFFECTS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; RETRACTOR; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SURGICAL APPROACH; THORACIC SPINE;

DISKECTOMY; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 34447267644     PISSN: 00305898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocl.2007.04.004     Document Type: Review

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