Trap-door rib-head osteotomies for posterior placement of expandable cages after transpedicular corpectomy: An alternative to lateral extracavitary and costotransversectomy approaches: Technical note

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 40-45

  Chou, Dean ^a   Wang, Vincent Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Costotransversectomy; Extracavitary approach; Osteotomy; Rib head; Transpedicular corpectomy; Trap door

Indexed keywords

METHACRYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; OSTEOMYELITIS; OSTEOTOMY; PLASMACYTOMA; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; RADIOGRAPHY; RIB; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; VERTEBRA;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; OSTEOMYELITIS; OSTEOTOMY; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RIBS; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, SPINAL;

EID: 61549129029     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2008.10.SPI08433     Document Type: Article

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