Endoscopic lumbar disc surgery: The hammer and the nail problem or the "not-So-Easy Go" system

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 151, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1035-1036

  Meyer, Bernhard ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; LUMBAR DISK; MICROSCOPY; MICROSURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

DISKECTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MICROSURGERY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEACHING;

EID: 69249213977     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-009-0453-8     Document Type: Editorial

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