Rib head disarticulation for multilevel transpedicular thoracic corpectomies and expandable cage reconstruction

Neurology India

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 469-474

  Chou, Dean ^a   Eltgroth, Matthew ^a   Yang, Isaac ^a   Lu, Daniel ^a   Manley, Geoff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cage; Corpectomy; Costotransversectomy; Disarticulation; Lateral extracavitary approach; Multilevel; Posterior; Reconstruction; Rib head; Thoracic; Transpedicular

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; RIB HEAD DISARTICULATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX SURGERY; THORAX WALL RECONSTRUCTION; TRANSPEDICULAR THORACIC CORPECTOMY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RIBS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70349428562     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.55602     Document Type: Article

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