Complications Associated with Posterior Lumbar Surgery

Seminars in Spine Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 101-113

  Cho, Woojin ^a   Shimer, Adam L ^a   Shen, Francis H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid leakage; Complications; Instrumentation malposition; Loss of fixation; Posterior lumbar surgery; Pseudarthrosis

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ARTICLE; BED REST; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DURA MATER TEAR; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; GUIDED IMAGERY; HUMAN; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; INCIDENCE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIQUORRHEA; LOSS OF FIXATION; LUMBAR SPINE; NERVE ROOT IMPINGEMENT; NERVE ROOT INJURY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT POSITIONING; PEDICLE SCREW; PEDICLE SCREW MALPOSITION; POSTERIOR LUMBAR SURGERY; POSTEROLATERAL FUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE SURGERY; SUBARACHNOID DRAINAGE; SURGICAL RISK; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 79956148660     PISSN: 10407383     EISSN: 15584496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semss.2010.12.013     Document Type: Article

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