Surgical management and clinical outcomes of multiple-level symptomatic herniated thoracic discs: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 774-783

  Oppenlander, Mark E ^a   Clark, Justin C ^a   Kalyvas, James ^a   Dickman, Curtis A ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiple herniated thoracic discs; Myelopathy; Thoracic microdiscectomy; Thoracic radiculopathy; Thoracoscopy; Thoracotomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADICULOPATHY; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE FUSION; SURGICAL APPROACH; THORACIC DISC HERNIA; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISPLACEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84889246998     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2013.8.SPINE121041     Document Type: Article

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