Revision lumbar surgery in elderly patients with symptomatic pseudarthrosis, adjacent-segment disease, or same-level recurrent stenosis. Part 1. Two-year outcomes and clinical efficacy ; Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 139-146

  Adogwa, Owoicho ^a   Carr, Ricardo K ^a   Kudyba, Katherine ^a   Karikari, Isaac ^c   Bagley, Carlos A ^c   Gokaslan, Ziya L ^b   Theodore, Nicholas ^d   Cheng, Joseph S ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Barrow Neurosurgical Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjacent segment disease; Elderly patient; Functional neurosurgery; Pseudarthrosis; Revision lumbar surgery; Same level recurrent stenosis

Indexed keywords

ADJACENT SEGMENT DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMBAR STENOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSWESTRY DISABILITY INDEX; PSEUDARTHROSIS; REVISION LUMBAR SURGERY; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE SURGERY; STENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ZUNG SELF RATING DEPRESSION SCALE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSEUDARTHROSIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL STENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84873619398     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2012.11.SPINE12224     Document Type: Article

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