Complications associated with surgical treatment of traumatic spinal fractures: A review of the scoliosis research society morbidity and mortality database

World Neurosurgery

Volumn 81, Issue 5-6, 2014, Pages 818-824

  Williams, Brian J ^a   Smith, Justin S ^a   Saulle, Dwight ^a   Ames, Christopher P ^b   Lenke, Lawrence G ^c   Broadstone, Paul A ^d   Vaccaro, Alexander R ^e   Polly, David W ^f   Shaffrey, Christopher I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Spine Surgery Associates   (United States)

^e THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complication; Fracture; Mortality; Spine surgery; Spine trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHRODESIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY; KYPHOPLASTY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MORBIDITY; NERVE ROOT INJURY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROMONITORING; PATIENT MONITORING; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTERIOR ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE FUSION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBELLUM HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; INFANT; LUNG EMBOLISM; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RESPIRATORY ARREST; SCOLIOSIS; SEPSIS; TENSION PNEUMOTHORAX; TRAUMATIC SPINAL FRACTURE;

COMPLICATION; FRACTURE; MORTALITY; SPINE SURGERY; SPINE TRAUMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902281802     PISSN: 18788750     EISSN: 18788769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2013.02.013     Document Type: Review

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