A radiographic assessment of the ability of the extreme lateral interbody fusion procedure to indirectly decompress the neural elements

Spine

Volumn 35, Issue SUPPL. 26S, 2010, Pages

  Oliveira, Leonardo ^a   Marchi, Luis ^a   Coutinho, Etevaldo ^a   Pimenta, Luiz ^b  

^a Instituto de Patologia da Coluna   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

claudication; foraminal area; foraminal height; MRI; XLIF

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MORBIDITY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSOAS MUSCLE; RADIOLOGIST; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE FUSION; X RAY FILM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL STENOSIS; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78650954078     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3182022db0     Document Type: Article

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