Trajectory of the main sensory and motor branches of the lumbar plexus outside the psoas muscle related to the lateral retroperitoneal transpsoas approach. Laboratory investigation

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 290-295

  Dakwar, Elias ^a   Vale, Fernando L ^a   Uribe, Juan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Direct lateral interbody fusion; Extreme lateral interbody fusion; Lateral access; Lumbar interbody fusion; Retroperitoneal approach; Transpsoas approach

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTICLE; CADAVER; HUMAN; ILEOHYPOGASTRIC NERVE; ILIOINGUINAL NERVE; LATERAL FEMORAL CUTANEOUS NERVE; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MOTOR NERVE; PSOAS MUSCLE; RETROPERITONEUM; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL ROOT; SPINE SURGERY; SUBCOSTAL NERVE; SURGICAL APPROACH;

ADULT; DISSECTION; HUMANS; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MOTOR NEURONS; PSOAS MUSCLES; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SPINAL FUSION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 79551704056     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.10.SPINE10395     Document Type: Article

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