Patient Outcomes After Lumbar Spinal Fusions

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 268, Issue 7, 1992, Pages 907-911

  Turner, Judith A ^a   Ersek, Mary ^a   Herron, Larry ^b   Haselkorn, Jodie ^a,c   Kent, Daniel ^a,c   Ciol, Marcia A ^a   Deyo, Richard ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Central Coast Spine Institute   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; REVIEW; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE INSTABILITY; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADULT; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FUSION; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0026683235     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1992.03490070089049     Document Type: Article

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