Associations between body mass and the outcome of surgery for scoliosis in Chinese adults

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Chen, Ziqiang ^a   Yi, Honglei ^a,b   Li, Ming ^a   Wang, Chuanfeng ^a   Zhang, Jingtao ^a   Yang, Changwei ^a   Zhao, Yingchuan ^a   Lu, Yanghu ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chinese People's Liberation Army   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BONE SCREW; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CHINESE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIRIUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ILEUS; KYPHOSIS; LIQUORRHEA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OBESITY; OSWESTRY DISABILITY INDEX; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE STABILIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ASIAN; BODY WEIGHT; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; ORTHOPEDICS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOLIOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79959777315     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021601     Document Type: Article

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