Surgery versus nonsurgical treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis a randomized trial

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 162, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 465-473

  Delitto, Anthony ^a   Piva, Sara R ^a   Moore, Charity G ^b   Fritz, Julie M ^c   Wisniewski, Stephen R ^d   Josbeno, Deborah A ^a   Fye, Mark ^e   Welch, William C ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINAL STENOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT FORM 36; SURGEON; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; REOPERATION; SPINAL STENOSIS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

AGED; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; REOPERATION; SEX FACTORS; SPINAL STENOSIS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84926618161     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/M14-1420     Document Type: Article

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