Minimally invasive lateral retropleural thoracolumbar approach: Cadaveric feasibility study and report of 4 clinical cases

Neurosurgery

Volumn 68, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Uribe, Juan S ^a   Dakwar, Elias ^a   Cardona, Rafael F ^a   Vale, Fernando L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lateral; Minimally invasive; Retropleural; Thoracolumbar

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; MINIMALLY INVASIVE LATERAL RETROPLEURAL THORACOLUMBAR APPROACH; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEUROFIBROMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; THORAX SURGERY; TUBE; VERTEBRA BODY;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CADAVER; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL FUSION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79951769087     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e318207b6cb     Document Type: Article

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