The increasing morbidity of elective spinal stenosis surgery is it necessar y?

JAMA

Volumn 303, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 1309-1310

  Carragee, Eugene J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE GRAFT; CLAUDICATION; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; EDITORIAL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULAR PAIN; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE FUSION; SPINE INSTABILITY; SPINE SURGERY; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; ECONOMICS; MEDICARE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REIMBURSEMENT; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNITED STATES;

DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; HUMANS; MEDICARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL STENOSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77950511365     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2010.402     Document Type: Editorial

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