Predicting complications in elderly patients undergoing lumbar decompression

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 384, Issue , 2001, Pages 116-121

  Benz, Robert J ^a   Ibrahim, Zaki G ^a   Afshar, Pouya ^a   Garfin, Steven R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

AGED; COMORBIDITY; DATA COLLECTION; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL STENOSIS;

EID: 0039565286     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-200103000-00014     Document Type: Article

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