Five-year follow-up of total disc replacement compared to fusion: A randomized controlled trial

European Spine Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2288-2295

  Sköld, Caroline ^a,b   Tropp, Hans ^a,c   Berg, Svante ^d,e  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e Löwenströmska Hospital   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Degenerative disc disease; Global assessment of back pain; Prospective randomized controlled trial; Spinal fusion; Total disc replacement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISK PROSTHESIS; DONOR SITE PAIN; DURA MATER TEAR; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HERNIA; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LEG PAIN; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MERALGIA PARESTHETICA; NERVE COMPRESSION; OSWESTRY DISABILITY INDEX; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTERIOR SPINE FUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REOPERATION; SHORT FORM 36; TOTAL DISC REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGED; CHRONIC PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROCEDURES; SPINE FUSION; SURGERY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC PAIN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REOPERATION; SPINAL FUSION; TOTAL DISC REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886781555     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: 14320932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-013-2926-y     Document Type: Article

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