Spondylodiscitis in the elderly patient: Clinical mid-term results and quality of life

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 130, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1083-1091

  Sobottke, Rolf ^a   Röllinghoff, Marc ^a   Zarghooni, Keta ^a   Zarghooni, Kourosh ^a   Schlüter Brust, Klaus ^a   Delank, Karl Stefan ^a   Seifert, Harald ^a   Zweig, Thomas ^b   Eysel, Peer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Complications; Elderly patient; Spinal surgery; Spondylodiscitis; Vertebral osteomyelitis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DISABILITY SEVERITY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEG PAIN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPONDYLITIS; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESICS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DISCITIS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL FUSION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77957350616     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-009-0972-z     Document Type: Article

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