Complications and Unfavorable Clinical Outcomes in Obese and Overweight Patients Treated for Adult Lumbar or Thoracolumbar Scoliosis with Combined Anterior/Posterior Surgery

Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2015, Pages E368-E376

  Yagi, Mitsuru ^a,b   Patel, Ravi ^a   Boachie Adjei, Oheneba ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION MURAYAMA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

adult scoliosis; anterior posterior spinal fusion; lumbar scoliosis; scoliosis; thoracolumbar scoliosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BONE DENSITY; COBB ANGLE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; KYPHOSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LORDOSIS; LUMBAR SPINE; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OSWESTRY DISABILITY INDEX; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN INTENSITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTERIOR SPINE FUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SACRUM; SCOLIOSIS; SCOLIOSIS RESEARCH SOCIETY PATIENT QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SURGICAL INFECTION; THORACIC SPINE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; DISABILITY; DISEASE COURSE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PAIN; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RABBIT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE; SPINE FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRA;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; KYPHOSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; OVERWEIGHT; PAIN; RABBITS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL FUSION; SPINE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84937164184     PISSN: 15360652     EISSN: 15392465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BSD.0b013e3182999526     Document Type: Article

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