Incidence of postoperative symptomatic epidural hematoma in spinal decompression surgery: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 202-205

  Aono, Hiroyuki ^a   Ohwada, Tetsuo ^b   Hosono, Noboru ^c   Tobimatsu, Hidekazu ^a   Ariga, Kenta ^a   Fuji, Takeshi ^c   Iwasaki, Motoki ^d  

^a OSAKA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KANSAI ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c OSAKA KOSEI NENKIN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Incidence; Spinal decompression surgery; Spinal epidural hematoma

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; TICLOPIDINE;

ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONVALESCENCE; DEVICE REMOVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FLACCID PARALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LAMINECTOMY; LEG PAIN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MYELOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL HEMATOMA; SPINE FUSION; SUCTION DRAINAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX SURGERY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADULT; COMORBIDITY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; HEMATOMA, EPIDURAL, SPINAL; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LAMINECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; SPINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80051691667     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2011.3.SPINE10716     Document Type: Article

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