A century of spine surgery: What can patients expect?

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 808-817

  Hawes, Martha C ^a   O'Brien, Joseph P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b National Scoliosis Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Pain; Pulmonary function; Scoliosis; Spinal deformity; Spinal fusion

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; LEG PAIN; LOW BACK PAIN; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; REVIEW; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE FUSION; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPINE SURGERY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 42549110387     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638280801889972     Document Type: Review

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