The utility of repeated postoperative radiographs after lumbar instrumented fusion for degenerative lumbar spine

Spine

Volumn 36, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 1955-1960

  Yamashita, Takayuki ^a   Steinmetz, Michael P ^b   Lieberman, Isador H ^c   Modic, Michael T ^a   Mroz, Thomas E ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c TEXAS BACK INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

adjacent segment disease; lumbar instrumented fusion; pseudoarthrosis; utility of postoperative radiographs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DETERIORATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PSEUDARTHROSIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE FUSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054890077     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31820125b5     Document Type: Article

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