Functional recovery of severe obturator and femoral nerve injuries after lateral retroperitoneal transpsoas surgery: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 409-414

  Ahmadian, Amir ^a   Abel, Naomi ^a   Uribe, Juan S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications of lumbar surgery; Femoral nerve injury; Lateral retroperitoneal; Lumbar plexus; Lumbar plexus injury; Minimally invasive lateral transpsoas

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONVALESCENCE; DENERVATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMORAL NERVE INJURY; HUMAN; LATERAL RETROPERITONEAL TRANSPSOAS SURGERY; LIMB WEAKNESS; MALE; NERVE INJURY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBTURATOR NERVE INJURY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; SPINE SURGERY;

FEMORAL NERVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE REGENERATION; OBTURATOR NERVE; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PSOAS MUSCLES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84875881026     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2013.1.SPINE12958     Document Type: Article

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