Outcome of minimally invasive surgery in the management of tuberculous spondylitis

Indian Journal of Orthopaedics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 159-164

  Kandwal, Pankaj ^a   Garg, Bhavuk ^a   Upendra, B ^a   Chowdhury, Budhadev ^a   Jayaswal, A ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Minimally invasive spine surgery; tuberculous spondylodiscitis; video assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859065496     PISSN: 00195413     EISSN: 19983727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5413.93680     Document Type: Article

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