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Case Reports
. 1978 May;48(5):768-72.
doi: 10.3171/jns.1978.48.5.0768.

A surgical approach through the pedicle to protruded thoracic discs

R H Patterson Jr, E Arbit
Case Reports

A surgical approach through the pedicle to protruded thoracic discs

R H Patterson Jr et al. J Neurosurg. 1978 May.

Abstract

Three cases of thoracic disc herniation presenting with signs of spinal cord compression are reported. The patients were operated on by an approach through a midline incision in which a pedicle is removed. Two patients were cured and one has improved.

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