Significantly improved outcomes with a less invasive posterior lumbar interbody fusion incorporating total facetectomy

Spine

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 572-577

  Kasis, Ata G ^a   Marshman, Laurence A G ^a   Krishna, Manoj ^a   Bhatia, Chandra K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH TEES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Less invasive PLIF

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CERVICAL DISKECTOMY AND FUSION SURGERY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BLEEDING; CERVICAL DISK REPLACEMENT; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DEVICE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NECK DISABILITY INDEX; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINE FUSION; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL RISK; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ARTHROPLASTY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LENGTH OF STAY; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ARTHROPLASTY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65549152817     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181973e35     Document Type: Article

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