Adult spinal deformity surgery: Complications and outcomes in patients over age 60

Spine

Volumn 32, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 2238-2244

  Daubs, Michael D ^a   Lenke, Lawrence G ^a   Cheh, Gene ^a   Stobbs, Georgia ^a   Bridwell, Keith H ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult deformity surgery; Arthrodesis; Complications; Elderly

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; OSTEOTOMY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FUSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548662175     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31814cf24a     Document Type: Article

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