Operative results and learning curve: Microscope-assisted tubular microsurgery for 1- and 2-level discectomies and laminectomies

Neurosurgical Focus

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Parikh, Karishma ^a   Tomasino, Andre ^a   Knopman, Jared ^a   Boockvar, John ^a   Härtl, Roger ^a  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Laminectomy; Microdiscectomy; Minimally invasive surgery; Spine; Tubular retractor

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LAMINECTOMY; LEARNING; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; LEARNING; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 56649100325     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10920684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/FOC/2008/25/8/E14     Document Type: Article

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