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EasyGO!-assisted microsurgical anterior cervical decompression: technical report and literature review
Affiliations- Department of Neurosurgery, Russian People’s Friendship University, Moscow, Russia
- Division of Spine Surgery, Central Clinical Hospital of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
- Centre for Surgery, Klinik Hirslanden, Zurich, Switzerland
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Abstract
Abstract
Keywords
EasyGO!, tubular retractor, cervical spine, anterior approach, spinal cord decompression, minimally invasive spine surgery
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EasyGO!-assisted microsurgical anterior cervical decompression: technical report and literature review
Journal
Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska
Issue
Article type
Technical Note
Pages
281-284
Published online
2022-04-07
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Bibliographic record
Neurol Neurochir Pol 2022;56(3):281-284.
Keywords
EasyGO!
tubular retractor
cervical spine
anterior approach
spinal cord decompression
minimally invasive spine surgery
Authors
Manuel De Jesus Encarnacion
Rossi Evelyn Barrientos Castillo
Yasser Matos
Edwin Bernard
Brenda Elenis
Boris Oleinikov
Renat Nurmukhametov
Juan Sebastian Castro
Alexander Volovich
Medet Dosanov
Ibrahim E. Efe
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