CRP and leukocyte-count after lumbar spine surgery: Fusion vs. nucleotomy

Acta Orthopaedica

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 489-493

  Kraft, Clayton N ^a   Krger, Tobias ^a   Westhoff, Jörn ^a   Lring, Christian ^b   Weber, Oliver ^c   Wirtz, Dieter C ^c   Pennekamp, Peter H ^c  

^a Helios Klinikum   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFLAMMATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SPINE FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; DISKECTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL STENOSIS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 80052512499     PISSN: 17453674     EISSN: 17453682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17453674.2011.588854     Document Type: Article

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