Anterior debridement and reconstruction via thoracoscopy-assisted mini-open approach for the treatment of thoracic spinal tuberculosis: minimum 5-year follow-up

INTRODUCTION: Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) has been developed for surgical treatment of thoracic spinal tuberculosis to overcome the problems associated with a formal thoracotomy. VATS, however, is technically demanding with a difficult learning curve. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We conduc...

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Main Authors: Lü, Guohua, Wang, Bing, Li, Jing, Liu, Weidong, Cheng, Ivan
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Springer-Verlag 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3296839/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21997276
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00586-011-2038-5
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