A new thoracic reconstruction technique "transforaminal Thoracic Interbody Fusion": A preliminary report of clinical outcomes

Spine

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 2010, Pages

  MacHino, Masaaki ^a,b   Yukawa, Yasutsugu ^a,b   Ito, Keigo ^a,b   Nakashima, Hiroaki ^a,b   Kato, Fumihiko ^a,b  

^a CHUBU ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Labor Health and Welfare Organization   (Japan)

Author keywords

decompression reconstructive surgery; instrumentation; thoracic spine; transforaminal thoracic interbody fusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ARACHNOID CYST; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; JAPANESE ORTHOPEDIC ASSOCIATION SCORE; KYPHOSIS; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT MOBILITY; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTERIOR VERTEBRAL FUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINE FUSION; SPINE INJURY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC SPINE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TRANSFORAMINAL THORACIC INTERBODY FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; EARLY AMBULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FUSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956403726     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181dc9153     Document Type: Article

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