Improvement of preoperative foot drop after lumbar surgery

Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 490-494

  Girardi, Federico P ^a   Cammisa Jr , Frank P ^a   Huang, Russel C ^a   Parvataneni, Hari K ^b   Tsairis, Peter ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^b LENOX HILL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Foot drop; Lumbar degenerative spine disorders; Outcome; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; JOINT FUNCTION; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERONEUS NERVE PARALYSIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE SURGERY; SYMPTOM; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOT DROP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NEUROPATHY; PARALYSIS;

EID: 0036903164     PISSN: 15360652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00024720-200212000-00010     Document Type: Article

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