Outcome of lumbar arthrodesis in patients sixty-five years of age or older

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 783-790

  Glassman, Steven D ^a   Polly, David W ^b   Bono, Christopher M ^c   Burkus, Kenneth ^d   Dimar, John R ^a  

^a NORTON LEATHERMAN SPINE CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota Physicians   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HUGHSTON CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BONE GRAFT; BRAIN INJURY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILIAC CREST; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LEG PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE ARTHRODESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SHORT FORM 36; SPINE FUSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERAPY EFFECT; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; AGE; BLEEDING; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; QUALITY OF LIFE; REOPERATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REOPERATION; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 65349101078     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.H.00288     Document Type: Article

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