Letter to the editor concerning "transforaminal endoscopic surgery for lumbar stenosis: A systematic review" (Nellensteijn et al.)

European Spine Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 987-988

  Fürstenberg, Carl Hans ^a   Wagner, Ralf ^b   Schubert, Michael ^c   Alfen, Florian Maria ^d   Krzok, Guntram ^e   Gibson, Alastair ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Cardiac Center Bethanien   (Germany)

^c Apex Spine Center   (Germany)

^d Orthopaedic Private Clinic Würzburg   (Germany)

^e Orthopaedic Private Clinic   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LETTER; LUMBAR STENOSIS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENOSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TRANSFORAMINAL ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENDOSCOPY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; SPINAL STENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80052562181     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: 14320932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-010-1631-3     Document Type: Letter

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