Minimally invasive posterolateral thoracic corpectomy: Cadaveric feasibility study and report of four clinical cases

Neurosurgery

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 746-753

  Kim, Dae Hyun ^a   O'Toole, John E ^b   Ogden, Alfred T ^c,f   Eichholz, Kurt M ^d   Song, John ^c   Christie, Sean D ^e   Fessler, Richard G ^c  

^a Catholic University of Daegu   (South Korea)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpectomy; Lateral extracavitary; Minimally invasive; Thoracic spine

Indexed keywords

OXYCODONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; CADAVER; CASE REPORT; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PLASMACYTOMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INCISION; SPINAL PAIN; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERAPY EFFECT; THORACIC CORPECTOMY; VERTEBRA BODY;

ADULT; CADAVER; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOTOMY; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; THORACOSCOPY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649872393     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000340783.83964.27     Document Type: Article

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