Prevention of epidural fibrosis in rats by local or systemic administration of citicoline

Turkish Neurosurgery

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 634-640

  Savran, Mehmet ^a   Bekar, Ahmet ^a   Cansev, Mehmet ^a   Tolunay, Sahsene ^a   Ulus, Ismail Hakki ^b   Taskapilioglu, Mevlut Ozgur ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ACIBADEM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Annular fenestration; Citicoline; Epidural fibrosis; Laminatomy; Rat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870159432     PISSN: 10195149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.6008-12.0     Document Type: Article

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