Letter to the Editor concerning "Virtually bloodless posterior midline exposure of the lumbar spine using the 'paramidline' fatty plane" by Moghimi MH, Leonard DA, Cho CH, et al. (Eur Spine J (2016) 25;956-962).
Department of Spinal Surgery, The James Cook University Hospital, Marton Rd, Middlesbrough, UK. matbuzz1@hotmail.com.
Mathew David
MD
Sewell
The University Hospitals of Wales, Cardiff, UK.
Michael
M
McCarthy
The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK.
Oliver M
OM
Stokes
The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK.
Daniel
D
Chan
D006801:Humans; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae
Blood loss; Exposure; Fatty plane; Lumbar spine; Surgical approach