Results and morbidity in a consecutive series of patients undergoing spinal fusion for neuromuscular scoliosis

Spine

Volumn 23, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 2308-2318

  Benson, Eric R ^a   Thomson, Jeffrey D ^a   Smith, Brian G ^a   Banta, John V ^a  

^a Farmington   (United States)

Author keywords

Luque Galveston; Neuromuscular; Scoliosis; Spinal fusion

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; MORBIDITY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; SCOLIOSIS; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; SPINE FUSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL FUSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032213154     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199811010-00012     Document Type: Article

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