Lumbar spinal surgery, where have we gone?

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 558-560

  Pawl, Ron ^a  

^a Lake Forest Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHRALGIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISABILITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; EXERCISE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAMINECTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICARE; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADICULOPATHY; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

DISKECTOMY; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADICULOPATHY; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FUSION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 43449107067     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2008.02.016     Document Type: Editorial

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