Open AccessLateral extracavitary approach to spine
Author(s) -
Dražen Ivetić,
Milan Spaić,
B Antić
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.135
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 2406-0895
pISSN - 0370-8179
DOI - 10.2298/sarh1310671i
Subject(s) - medicine , corpectomy , prone position , decompression , lumbar , anatomy , spinal cord , cauda equina , surgery , psychiatry
This paper describes the lateral extracavitary approach to the lumbar spine using the three-quarter prone position. Owing to unsatisfied results of the posterior approaches to spine in patients with the ventral compressive lesions, many ventral approaches as well as lateral extracavitary approach have been developed.