Comparison of inpatient vs. outpatient anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: A retrospective case series

BMC Surgery

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Liu, Jeffrey T ^a   Briner, Rudy P ^b   Friedman, Jonathan A ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Texas Brain and Spine Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM;

ALLOGRAFT; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; COMORBIDITY; DYSPHAGIA; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GROUPS BY AGE; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LIQUORRHEA; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SPINE FUSION; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYNCOPE; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISKECTOMY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 62749141529     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2482-9-3     Document Type: Article

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