Extension of prior idiopathic scoliosis fusions to the sacrum: A matched cohort analysis of sixty patients with minimum two-year follow-up

Spine

Volumn 35, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 1843-1848

  Crawford, Charles H ^a   Bridwell, Keith H ^a   Cho, Woojin ^a   Buchowski, Jacob M ^a   O'Shaughnessy, Brian A ^a   Chang, Michael S ^a   Auerbach, Josh D ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

adult deformity surgery; adult idiopathic scoliosis; iliac crest bone graft; pseudarthrosis; rhBMP 2

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2;

ADULT; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BONE GRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; MALE; OSWESTRY DISABILITY INDEX; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDARTHROSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SACRUM; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; SPINE FUSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SURGICAL INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; WOUND COMPLICATION;

ADULT; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; COHORT STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACRUM; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77957328531     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181e03115     Document Type: Article

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