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Full-Endoscopic Transforaminal Approach for Lumbar Discectomy
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Intraoperative death during lumbar discectomy
British Journal of Anaesthesia
|June 1, 1991
Abstract:
A patient suffered cardiovascular collapse and died during surgery for prolapsed intervertebral disc. At postmortem a tear was found in the abdominal aorta.

