The translaminar approach to lumbar disc herniations impinging the exiting root

Neurosurgery

Volumn 62, Issue 3 SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Papavero, Luca ^a,b   Langer, Niels ^a   Fritzsche, Erik ^a   Emami, Pedram ^a   Westphal, Manfred ^a   Kothe, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b Am Klinikum Eilbek   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lumbar disc herniation; Lumbar microdiscectomy; Spinal microsurgery; Translaminar approach

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LAMINOTOMY; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; LUMBAR ROOT COMPRESSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE INSTABILITY; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRANSLAMINAR APPROACH;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HERNIA; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 42449110770     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000317389.83808.16     Document Type: Article

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