Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery combined with a tubular retractor system for minimally invasive thoracic discectomy

Neurosurgery

Volumn 68, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Yanni, Daniel S ^a   Connery, Cliff ^b   Perin, Noel I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Extreme lateral; Microdiscectomy; Minimally invasive thoracic spine; Thoracoscopy; Videoassisted thoracoscopic surgery; XLIF T

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LUNG VENTILATION; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRACTOR; TUBULAR RETRACTOR SYSTEM; VERTEBRA BODY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISPLACEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79951770389     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e318209348c     Document Type: Article

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