Effectiveness of posterior decompression techniques compared with conventional laminectomy for lumbar stenosis

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2015, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Overdevest, Gijsbert M ^a   Jacobs, Wilco ^a   Vleggeert Lankamp, Carmen ^a   Thomé, Claudius ^b   Gunzburg, Robert ^c   Peul, Wilco ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c BRUGMANN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE;

ADULT; AGED; BACKACHE; CELL DAMAGE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONVALESCENCE; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUMBAR STENOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE INJURY; OPERATION DURATION; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; PARASPINAL MUSCLE; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE DISEASE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; JOINT INSTABILITY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; META ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; SPINAL STENOSIS;

DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SPINAL STENOSIS;

EID: 84942771722     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD010036.pub2     Document Type: Review

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