The safety of instrumented outpatient anterior cervical discectomy and fusion

Spine Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 148-153

  Villavicencio, Alan T ^a   Pushchak, Evan ^a   Burneikiene, Sigita ^a   Thramann, Jeffrey J ^a  

^a Boulder Neurosurgical Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion; Cervical plating; Cervical spine surgery; Complications; Degenerative cervical spine; Fusion; Outpatient surgery

Indexed keywords

HYDROCODONE; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ALLERGIC REACTION; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEHYDRATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NECK PAIN; NERVE ROOT INJURY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTPATIENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33847062966     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2006.04.009     Document Type: Article

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