Safety of anterior cervical discectomy and fusion performed as outpatient surgery

Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 439-443

  Garringer, Sean M ^a   Sasso, Rick C ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

anterior cervical discectomy; Anterior cervical fusion; complications; outpatient surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR EMBOLISM; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ANTERIOR CERVICAL DISKECTOMY; ARTICLE; CHYLOTHORAX; COMORBIDITY; DEATH; DRAIN; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; FEMALE; HORNER SYNDROME; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE ROOT INJURY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVATION; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE FUSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA, EPIDURAL, SPINAL; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL STENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77958568030     PISSN: 15360652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BSD.0b013e3181bd0419     Document Type: Article

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