Laser-assisted posterior cervical foraminotomy and discectomy for lateral and foraminal cervical disc herniation

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 510-515

  Ahn, Yong ^a   Moon, Kang Seok ^a   Kang, Byung Uk ^b   Hur, Sung Min ^b   Kim, Jin Duck ^b  

^a Gimpo Airport Wooridul Spine Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Daegu Wooridul Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD LOSS; CERVICAL DISCS; CLINICAL DATA; CLINICAL OUTCOME; DISC SPACE; INTRA-OPERATIVE; LASER SCALPEL; LASER-ASSISTED; RADICULOPATHY; SURGICAL FIELD; VISUAL ANALOGUE SCALE;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORAMINOTOMY; GAS LASER; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADICULOPATHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORAMINOTOMY; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISPLACEMENT; LASER THERAPY; LASERS, GAS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADICULOPATHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84867560725     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2012.3246     Document Type: Article

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