Surgical treatment of thoracic disc disease via minimally invasive lateral transthoracic trans/retropleural approach: Analysis of 33 patients

Neurosurgical Review

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 455-465

  Nacar, Osman Arikan ^a   Ulu, Mustafa Onur ^a,b   Pekmezci, Murat ^a   Deviren, Vedat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Lateral approach; Lateral interbody fusion; Minimally invasive surgery; Thoracic disc herniation; XLIF

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; BLEEDING; BONE PLATE; BONE SCREW; BRACE; CHEST TUBE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; ENTERITIS; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERCOSTAL NERVE BLOCK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LAMINECTOMY; LATERAL TRANSTHORACIC TRANS RETROPLEURAL APPROACH; LENGTH OF STAY; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MALE; MENTAL COMPONENT SUMMARY SCORE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEURALGIA; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OSTEOTOMY; OSWESTRY DISABILITY INDEX; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; RATING SCALE; RETRACTOR; SAFETY; SHORT FORM 36; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC SPINE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISPLACEMENT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PLEURA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879225273     PISSN: 03445607     EISSN: 14372320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10143-013-0461-2     Document Type: Article

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