Performance of a new type of suction tip attachment during intramedullary tumor dissection: Technical note

Neurosurgery

Volumn 61, Issue 5 SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages

  Lefranc, Florence ^a   Brotchi, Jacques ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aspirator; Dissection; Intramedullary tumor; Tip

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMER;

ADHESION; AIRFLOW; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISSECTION; EDEMA; EPENDYMOMA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SUCTION; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; VACUUM;

DISSECTION; HUMANS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; SUCTION;

EID: 37349120762     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000303975.14430.1f     Document Type: Article

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