An anatomical study on lumbar arteries related to the extrapedicular approach applied during lumbar PVP (PKP)

• Liehua Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Liehua Liu, Shiming Cheng

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Spinal Surgery, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China, Department of Spine Surgery, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University (Gener Hospital), Chongqing, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3915-8759

  ⨯
• Shiming Cheng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Liehua Liu, Shiming Cheng

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Chongqing Dongnan Hospital, Chongqing, China

  ⨯
• Qian Wang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Hillsborough Community College, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

  ⨯
• Qiang Liang,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Spinal Surgery, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China

  ⨯
• Yong Liang,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Southwest Hospital, The Army (Third Military) Medical University, Chongqing, China

  ⨯
• Weidong Jin ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wangzlnx@126.com (ZW); zhouqiang@hospital.cqmu.edu.cn (QZ); dr.jin_weidong@163.com (WJ)

  Affiliation Department of Spinal Surgery, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China

  ⨯
• Qiang Zhou ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wangzlnx@126.com (ZW); zhouqiang@hospital.cqmu.edu.cn (QZ); dr.jin_weidong@163.com (WJ)

  Affiliation Department of Spine Surgery, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University (Gener Hospital), Chongqing, China

  ⨯
• Zili Wang

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wangzlnx@126.com (ZW); zhouqiang@hospital.cqmu.edu.cn (QZ); dr.jin_weidong@163.com (WJ)

  Affiliation Department of Spinal Surgery, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China

  ⨯