Complications in long fusions to the sacrum for adult scoliosis: Minimum five-year analysis of fifty patients

Spine

Volumn 33, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 1478-1483

  Weistroffer, Joseph K ^a   Perra, Joseph H ^a   Lonstein, John E ^a   Schwender, James D ^a   Garvey, Timothy A ^a   Transfeldt, Ensor E ^a   Ogilvie, James W ^a   Denis, Francis ^a   Winter, Robert B ^a   Wroblewski, Jill M ^a  

^a TWIN CITIES SPINE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult scoliosis; Complications; Long fusions to the sacrum; Long term follow up; Pseudarthrosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; STAINLESS STEEL;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; ARACHNOIDITIS; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEATH; DEBRIDEMENT; DEVICE REMOVAL; DURA MATER; FEMALE; FIXATION DEVICE; FOLLOW UP; FOOT MALFORMATION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; ILIAC BONE; IMMOBILIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LONG TERM CARE; LUMBAR SPINE; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE ROOT INJURY; ORTHOSIS; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SACRUM; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE FUSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; THORACIC SPINE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RADICULOPATHY; RADIOGRAPHY; REOPERATION; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRA;

ADULT; AGED; DEVICE REMOVAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RADICULOPATHY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SACRUM; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL FUSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 46749132307     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181753c53     Document Type: Article

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