Assessment of adjacent-segment degeneration in and between patients treated with anterior or posterior cervical simple discectomy;Anterior veya posterior, servikal basit diskektomi geçiren hastaların komşu seviye dejenerasyonu yönünden deǧerlendirilmesi

Turkish Neurosurgery

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 334-340

  Acikbas, Sabri Cem ^a   Ermol, Cenk ^a   Akyuz, Mahmut ^a   Tuncer, Recai ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Adjacent segment degeneration; Cervical disc degeneration; Cervical discectomy; Cervical spine

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956251608     PISSN: 10195149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.2575-09.1     Document Type: Article

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