Cadaveric evaluation of minimally invasive posterolateral thoracic corpectomy: a comparison of 3 approaches

Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 524-529

  Ogden, Alfred T ^a   Eichholz, Kurt ^b   O'Toole, John ^c   Smith, Justin S ^a   Gala, Vishal ^d   Voyadzis, Jean Marc ^e   Sugimoto, Koichi ^a   Song, John ^a   Fessler, Richard G ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Atlanta Brain and Spine Care   (United States)

^e GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cadaver; Corpectomy; Lateral extracavitary; Minimally invasive; Retropleural; Spine; Thoracic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CADAVER; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRACTOR; RIB RESECTION; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC CORPECTOMY; THORACIC SPINE;

CADAVER; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; HUMANS; RIBS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; VERTEBROPLASTY;

EID: 70349876319     PISSN: 15360652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BSD.0b013e31818e5488     Document Type: Article

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