Minimally invasive thoracic corpectomy and anterior fusion in a patient with metastatic disease: Case report and review of the literature

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 141-143

  Keshavarzi, S ^a,d   Park, M S ^a   Aryan, H E ^b,c   Newman, C B ^a   Amene, C S ^a   Gonda, D ^a   Taylor, W R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Sierra Pacific Orthopaedic and Spine Center   (United States)

^d Division of Neurosurgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Minimally invasive; Transthoracic corpectomy; XLIF

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; EMERGENCY CARE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; NEUROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIOGRAPHY; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; THORACIC CORPECTOMY; THORACIC SPINE;

BONE NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL FUSION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 69949185961     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: 14392291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1231067     Document Type: Article

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