Clinical follow up after instrumentation-augmented lumbar spinal surgery in patients with unsatisfactory outcomes

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 281-286

  Hsu, Chien Jen ^a   Chou, Wen Ying ^b   Chang, Wei Ning ^b   Wong, Chi Yin ^b  

^a KAOHSIUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Instrumentation; Outcome; Spinal surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARACHNOIDITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FOLLOW UP; HERNIA; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; PSEUDARTHROSIS; SPINE SURGERY; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; BONE SCREW; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOGRAPHY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RADIOGRAPHY; REOPERATION; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE FUSION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOGRAPHY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; REOPERATION; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750727363     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/spi.2006.5.4.281     Document Type: Article

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