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Vascular injury related to lumbar disk surgery
M Villano1, G Cantatore, N Narciso
1Università degli Studi di Napoli, II Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Cattedra di Neurotraumatologia.
Neurochirurgia
|March 1, 1992
Abstract:
The authors report a case of left common iliac artery injury, as a complication of diskectomy, in a 57 year-old male patient, with herniated disk at L4-L5. A review shows that L4-L5 disk space is the most common site for this rare complication of lumbar disk surgery.