Higher risk of adjacent segment degeneration after floating fusions: Long-term outcome after low lumbar spine fusions

Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 79-85

  Disch, Alexander Carl ^a   Schmoelz, Werner ^b   Matziolis, Georg ^a   Schneider, Sascha V ^a   Knop, Christian ^b   Putzier, Michael ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adjacent segment degeneration; Alignment; Fusion; Long term outcome; Lumbar spine

Indexed keywords

ADJACENT SEGMENT DEGENERATION; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LORDOSIS; LUMBAR SPINE; LUMBAR SPINE FUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SACRUM; SPINE FUSION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SACRUM; SPINAL FUSION; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 41949133913     PISSN: 15360652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BSD.0b013e3180577259     Document Type: Article

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