Basic Anatomic Considerations Concerning the Surgical Approaches to the Spinal Column

The 36th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Neurosurgery discussed surgical approaches to the various parts of the spinal column, the ligaments, and the attachments of the spinal cord and its vasculature. In this paper, data are presented on the approaches to the craniocervical junction in particular, but also to the thoracic and lumbar spinal cord.