Proximal junctional acute collapse cranial to multi-level lumbar fusion: a cost analysis of prophylactic vertebral augmentation

Spine Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 875-881

  Hart, Robert A ^a   Prendergast, Michael A ^b   Roberts, Warren G ^a   Nesbit, Gary M ^a   Barnwell, Stanley L ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Kyphoplasty; Proximal junctional acute collapse; Spine fusion; Vertebroplasty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; KYPHOPLASTY; MEDICAL RECORD; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPINE FUSION;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JOINT INSTABILITY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SACRUM; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FUSION; VERTEBROPLASTY;

EID: 54449085632     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2008.01.015     Document Type: Article

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