Elective lumbar spinal decompression in the elderly: Is it a high-risk operation?

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 43-46

  Reindl, Rudolf ^a,b   Steffen, Thomas ^a   Cohen, Lara ^a   Aebi, Max ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISABILITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC SURGERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL RISK; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 0037329958     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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