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JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY-SPINE
Volume 17, Issue 2, Pages 160-163Publisher
AMER ASSOC NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS
DOI: 10.3171/2012.4.SPINE12152
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tubular retractor; spinal dural arteriovenous fistula; minimally invasive surgery
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Effective surgical obliteration of spinal dural arteriovenous fistulas (DAVFs) traditionally requires laminectomy or hemilaminectomy to allow intradural exposure and occlusion of the draining vein. The authors present successful treatment of a spinal DAVF by using a tubular retractor system to provide minimally invasive exposure at the L5-S1 level adequate for both microsurgical treatment and intraoperative indocyanine green angiography. (http://thejns.org/doi/abs/10.3171/2012.4.SPINE12152)
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