Early experience treating thoracic disc herniations using a modified transfacet pedicle-sparing decompression and fusion: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 221-231

  Bransford, Richard ^a   Zhang, Fangyi ^b   Bellabarb, Carlo ^a   Konodi, Mark ^a   Chapman, Jens R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Posterior thoracic decompression; Thoracic disc herniation; Thoracic interbody fusion; Thoracic stenosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BLEEDING; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RADICULOPATHY; SEROMA; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE FUSION; SURGICAL INFECTION; THORACIC DISC HERNIATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; DATABASES AS TOPIC; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 76149131362     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.9.SPINE09476     Document Type: Article

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