Outcomes of posterior fusion using pedicle screw fixation in patients ≥ 70 years with lumbar spinal canal stenosis

Orthopedics

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1096-

  Tokuhashi, Yasuaki ^a   Ajiro, Yasumitsu ^a   Umezawa, Natsuki ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN INFARCTION; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; JOINT PROSTHESIS; LIMB FRACTURE; LUMBAR SPINAL CANAL STENOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDICLE SCREW FIXATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE FUSION; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; WHEELCHAIR; BONE REGENERATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; INSTRUMENTATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL CANAL;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE SCREWS; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; OSSEOINTEGRATION; SPINAL CANAL; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL STENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65349167889     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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