CT scan assessment of the pathway of the true lateral approach for transforaminal endoscopic lumbar discectomy: Is it possible?

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series B

Volumn 93 B, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1395-1399

  Lee, D H ^a   Kim, N H ^a   Park, J B ^a   Hwang, C J ^a   Lee, C S ^a   Kim, Y T ^a   Kang, S J ^a,b   Rhee, J M ^a,c  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Busan Adventist Hospital   (South Korea)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; INTESTINE; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLEEN; SUPINE POSITION;

ADULT; AGED; DISKECTOMY; ENDOSCOPY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT POSITIONING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRONE POSITION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPINE POSITION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053493365     PISSN: 0301620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.93B10.26833     Document Type: Article

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