Patient outcomes after laminotomy, hemilaminectomy, laminectomy and laminectomy with instrumented fusion for spinal canal stenosis: a propensity score-based study from the Spine Tango registry

Geochemistry International

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 358-368

  Munting, Everard ^a   Röder, Christoph ^b   Sobottke, Rolf ^c   Dietrich, Daniel ^b   Aghayev, Emin ^b  

^a Clinique Saint Pierre of Ottignies   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Centre for Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decompression; Instrumented fusion; Lumbar spinal stenosis; Propensity score; Spine Tango

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; SURGERY;

CLINICAL OUTCOME; DECOMPRESSION; MULTI-CENTRE STUDY; PATIENT INFORMATION; PROPENSITY SCORE; SPINAL STENOSIS; SPINE TANGO; WEIGHTING METHODS;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

BASEMENT ROCK; CRUDE OIL; HYDROCARBON; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; OIL FIELD; ORGANIC MATTER; SEDIMENTARY ROCK;

ROMASHKIN FIELD; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TATARSTAN;

ADULT; AGED; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PROPENSITY SCORE; REGISTER; SPINAL STENOSIS; SPINE FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPENSITY SCORE; REGISTRIES; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL STENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84922164871     PISSN: 00167029     EISSN: 15561968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-014-3349-0     Document Type: Article

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