Less invasive surgical correction of adult degenerative scoliosis. part II: Complications and clinical outcome

Neurosurgery

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1609-1621

  Scheufler, Kai Michael ^a   Cyron, Donatus ^b   Dohmen, Hildegard ^d   Eckardt, Anke ^c  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b Klinikum Karlsruhe   (Germany)

^c Departments of Orthopedics   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Clinical outcome; Complications; Degenerative scoliosis; Fluoroscopy; Image guidance; Intraoperative computed tomography; Less invasive surgery.

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CLAUDICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMBAR INTERBODY FUSION; LUMBAR NERVE ROOT DYSFUNCTION; MALE; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; OPERATION DURATION; OSWESTRY DISABILITY INDEX; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RADICULOPATHY; SCOLIOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE SCREWS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PAIN MEASUREMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL FUSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78650516733     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3181f918cf     Document Type: Article

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