The transpedicular approach compared with the anterior approach: An analysis of 80 thoracolumbar corpectomies - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 583-591

  Lu, Daniel ^a   Lau, Darryl ^a   Lee, Jasmine G ^a   Chou, Dean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior corpectomy; Anterior posterior corpectomy; Retroperitoneal approach; Thoracolumbar approach; Transpedicular corpectomy; Transthoracic approach

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR THORACOLUMBAR CORPECTOMY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLEEDING; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CHORDOMA; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DEATH; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HEART ARREST; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVIEW; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KYPHOSIS; LIPOSARCOMA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CARCINOMA; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MELANOMA; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NEURILEMOMA; OPERATION DURATION; OSTEOMYELITIS; OSTEOTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PLASMACYTOMA; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTATE CANCER; REOPERATION; SARCOMA; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL INFECTION; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TRANSPEDICULAR THORACOLUMBAR CORPECTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; X RAY FILM;

BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953951805     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.1.SPINE09292     Document Type: Article

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