Incidental durotomy during lumbar spine surgery: Risk factors and anatomic locations ; Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 165-169

  Takahashi, Yoshimasa ^a   Sato, Tetsuro ^a   Hyodo, Hironori ^a   Kawamata, Tomomaro ^a   Takahashi, Eiji ^a   Miyatake, Naohisa ^a   Tokunaga, Masako ^a  

^a Sendai Orthopaedic Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complication; Degenerative spondylolisthesis; Incidental durotomy; Juxtafacet cyst; Lumbar spine surgery; Technique

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DUROTOMY; FEMALE; FENESTRATION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LAMINOPLASTY; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM; LIQUORRHEA; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; SPINE FUSION; SPINE INJURY; SPINE SURGERY; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SPONDYLOLYSIS; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DISKECTOMY; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISPLACEMENT; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL STENOSIS; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS;

EID: 84873681777     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2012.10.SPINE12271     Document Type: Article

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