title: Kissing spines: fact or fancy?
abstract: In the Neurosurgical Clinic in Groningen 64 patients underwent surgery between 1975 and 1985 for a clinical and radiological syndrome described by Baastrup in 1933 and called in the Anglo-saxon literature: "kissing spines". Because the results of the surgical treatment were disappointing we submitted these results to further analysis.
authors.affiliation: Neurosurgical Clinic University Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Beks
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013122:Spinal Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D013577:Syndrome