Outcomes of posterior spinal fusion and instrumentation in patients with continuous intrathecal baclofen infusion pumps

Spine

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Caird, Michelle S ^a,b   Palanca, Ariel A ^a   Garton, Hugh ^a   Hensinger, Robert N ^a   Ayyangar, Rita N ^a   Drongowski, Amy ^a   Farley, Frances A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral palsy; Intrathecal baclofen; Neuromuscular scoliosis; Postoperative complications; Spinal fusion

Indexed keywords

BACLOFEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPINE FUSION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BACLOFEN; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSION PUMPS, IMPLANTABLE; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; MALE; MUSCLE RELAXANTS, CENTRAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 39649110149     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181642aae     Document Type: Article

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