Lumbar spinal stenosis in elderly patients

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1100, Issue , 2007, Pages 173-178

  Kaptan, Hulagu ^a,e   Kasimcan, Omur ^a   Cakiroglu, Kutay ^b   Ilhan, Mustafa Necmi ^c   Kilic, Celal ^d  

^a Ulus Hospital   (Turkey)

^b Gazi Hospital   (Turkey)

^c GAZI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^d ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^e Ulus Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Decompression; Discectomy; Elderly; Laminectomy; Lumbar spinal stenosis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTHROPATHY; CLAUDICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LAMINECTOMY; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REFLEX DISORDER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SPONDYLOSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VERTEBRAL CANAL; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; AGING; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; METHODOLOGY; PAIN; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COHORT STUDIES; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL STENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34249719904     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1395.015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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