Postoperative management protocol for incidental dural tears during degenerative lumbar spine surgery: A review of 3,183 consecutive degenerative lumbar cases

Spine

Volumn 31, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 2609-2613

  Khan, Mustafa H ^a   Rihn, Jeffery ^a   Steele, Garen ^a   Davis, Rick ^b   Donaldson III, William F ^a   Kang, James D ^a   Lee, Joon Y ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Complication; Degenerative lumbar surgery; Dural tear; Reoperation; Repair

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DURA MATER; DURA MATER TEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE FUSION; SPINE INJURY; SPINE SURGERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 33750336752     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000241066.55849.41     Document Type: Review

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