Health-related quality of life improvements in patients undergoing lumbar spinal fusion as a revision surgery

Spine

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 269-276

  Djurasovic, Mladen ^a   Glassman, Steven D ^a   Howard, Jennifer M ^a   Copay, Anne G ^b   Carreon, Leah Y ^a  

^a Norton Leatherman Center   (United States)

^b The Spinal Research Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

adjacent segment degeneration; lumbar fusion; nonunion; outcomes; revision surgery

Indexed keywords

NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADJACENT SEGMENT DEGENERATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LAMINECTOMY; LEG PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE FUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSWESTRY DISABILITY INDEX; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REOPERATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT FORM 36; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE FUSION; SPONDYLOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79951769713     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181cf1091     Document Type: Article

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