Persistent notochordal remnants of the lumbar spine: A case study and literature review

Current Orthopaedic Practice

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Stambough, Jeffrey Benjamin ^a,f   Cole, James ^b   Stambough, Jeffrey L ^c   Stambough, Megan E ^d   Clouse, Elisha K ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Deaconess Hospital Cincinnati   (United States)

^c 705 Engineering Research Center   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CHORDOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK; LUMBAR SPINE; LUMBAR SPINE DEFORMITY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; NOTOCHORD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR ABLATION; VERTEBRA BODY;

EID: 79955889725     PISSN: 19407041     EISSN: 19417551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BCO.0b013e3181f87935     Document Type: Article

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