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Morphometric study of the human lumbar spine for operation-workspace specifications.
Spine - 15 Nov 2001
Wolf A, Shoham M, Michael S, Moshe R
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STUDY DESIGN: The anatomy of the lumbar vertebrae of 55 patients was measured by use of data provided by computed tomography. On the basis of these measurements, the location of puncture points and the orientation of the surgical instruments for pedicle, vertebral body, and disc entry points were calculated for open as well as percutaneous surgery. OBJECTIVE: Normal anatomic variations of the lumbar spine were...
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