Indirect foraminal decompression is independent of metabolically active facet arthropathy in extreme lateral interbody fusion

Spine

Volumn 39, Issue 22, 2014, Pages E1303-E1310

  Malham, Gregory M ^a   Parker, Rhiannon M ^b   Goss, Ben ^c   Blecher, Carl M ^a   Ballok, Zita E ^a  

^a EPWORTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Greg Malham Neurosurgeon   (Australia)

^c NuVasive Australia and NZ Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

bone scan; computed tomography; facet arthropathy; foraminal area; foraminal height; indirect decompression; lateral; metabolically active; minimally invasive; posterior disc height; XLIF

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTREME LATERAL INTERBODY FUSION; FEMALE; GAMMA CAMERA; HUMAN; INDIRECT FORAMINAL DECOMPRESSION; JOINT CAVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLICALLY ACTIVE FACET ARTHROPATHY; MOTOR NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSOAS MUSCLE; SHORT FORM 36; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE FUSION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; JOINT DISEASES; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROCEDURES; RADICULOPATHY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; JOINT DISEASES; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RADICULOPATHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

EID: 84930081786     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000000551     Document Type: Article

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