First report of major vascular injury due to lateral transpsoas approach leading to fatality: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 794-798

  Assina, Rachid ^a   Majmundar, Neil J ^a   Herschman, Yehuda ^a   Heary, Robert F ^a  

^a RWJ Barnabas Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Complication; Extreme lateral interbody fusion; Lateral transpsoas approach; Lumbar spine; Vascular injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BALLOON OCCLUSION; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEPRESSION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EXTREME LATERAL INTERBODY FUSION; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; ILIAC VEIN; ILIAC VEIN OCCLUSION; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OBESITY; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETRACTOR; RETROPERITONEAL ABSCESS; RETROPERITONEAL HEMORRHAGE; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPINE FUSION; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN OCCLUSION; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PSOAS MUSCLE; SURGERY; VASCULAR SYSTEM INJURIES;

FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; ILIAC VEIN; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PSOAS MUSCLES; SPINAL FUSION; VASCULAR SYSTEM INJURIES; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 84921996633     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2014.7.SPINE131146     Document Type: Article

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