Quality of life after surgical decompression of lumbar spinal stenosis with and without instrumentation

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 123, Issue , 2006, Pages 456-460

  Grivas, Theodoros B ^a   Vasiliadis, Elias ^a   Papadakis, Stamatios A ^a   Mouzakis, Vasilios ^a   Segos, Dimitrios ^a  

^a THRIASIO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

instrumentation; Lumbar spinal stenosis; quality of life; SF 36; surgical decompression

Indexed keywords

STATISTICS; SURGERY;

INSTRUMENTATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SF 36; SPINAL STENOSIS; SURGICAL DECOMPRESSION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SURGERY; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL STENOSIS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 39049194853     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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