The duration of symptoms and clinical outcomes in patients undergoing anterior cervical discectomy and fusion for degenerative disc disease and radiculopathy

Spine Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 427-432

  Burneikiene, Sigita ^a,b   Nelson, E Lee ^a,b   Mason, Alexander ^a,b   Rajpal, Sharad ^a   Villavicencio, Alan T ^a,b  

^a BNA   (United States)

^b Justin Parker Neurological Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion; Clinical outcomes; Degenerative disc disease; Duration of symptoms; Prospective clinical study; Radiculopathy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CERVICAL DISCECTOMY AND FUSION; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ARTICLE; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABILITY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CERVICAL SPINE; FOLLOW UP; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADICULOPATHY; SPINE FUSION; TIME; VERY ELDERLY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADICULOPATHY; SPINAL FUSION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84924067659     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: 18781632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2014.09.017     Document Type: Article

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