Effects of age and comorbidities on complication rates and adverse outcomes after lumbar laminectomy in elderly patients

Spine

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1250-1255

  Li, Gordon ^a,b   Patil, Chirag G ^a   Lad, Shivanand P ^a   Ho, Chris ^a   Tian, Wendy ^a   Boakye, Maxwell ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Elderly; Lumbar; Mortality; National database

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; GENDER; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY DISEASE; LAMINECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 43549088342     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181714a44     Document Type: Article

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