Postoperative epidural fibrosis after lumbar disc surgery: Fact or fiction?;Fibrose épidurale postopératoire après chirurgie discale lombaire: Mythe ou réalité?

Revue Medicale Suisse

Volumn 6, Issue 238, 2010, Pages 468-471

  Fransen, Patrick ^a  

^a Clinique du Parc Leopold   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACROGOL; METHYLCELLULOSE;

ADHESION; CLINICAL FEATURE; EPIDURAL FIBROSIS; FIBROSIS; GEL; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LUMBAR DISK; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADICULOPATHY; REVIEW; ARTICLE; EPIDURAL SPACE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; PATHOLOGY;

EPIDURAL SPACE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADICULOPATHY;

EID: 77949800269     PISSN: 16609379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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