Paradigm changes in spine surgery-evolution of minimally invasive techniques

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 443-450

  Smith, Zachary A ^a   Fessler, Richard G ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CORPECTOMY; ELDERLY CARE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRADURAL SPINAL CORD TUMOR; LENGTH OF STAY; LUMBAR STENOSIS; MICROENDOSCOPIC DECOMPRESSION OF STENOSIS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SPINE SURGERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPINE RECONSTRUCTION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 84864973415     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2012.110     Document Type: Review

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