Debate: Degenerative scoliosis - To operate or not to operate

Spine

Volumn 31, Issue 19 SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Akbarnia, Behrooz A ^a   Ogilvie, James W ^b   Hammerberg, K W ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^c RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SCOLIOSIS; SUBLUXATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BACK PAIN; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; OBESITY; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748363881     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000234732.43489.0f     Document Type: Review

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