Impact of Increasing Age on Outcomes of Spinal Fusion in Adult Idiopathic Scoliosis

World Neurosurgery

Volumn 87, Issue , 2016, Pages 591-597

  Verla, Terence ^a   Adogwa, Owoicho ^b   Toche, Ulysses ^a   Farber, S Harrison ^a   Petraglia, Frank ^a   Murphy, Kelly R ^a   Thomas, Steven ^a   Fatemi, Parastou ^a   Gottfried, Oren ^b   Bagley, Carlos A ^b   Lad, Shivanand P ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Key words Age; Outcomes; Scoliosis; Spinal fusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT DISEASE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; REOPERATION; SPINE FUSION; ADOLESCENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; FACTUAL DATABASE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCOLIOSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84960100906     PISSN: 18788750     EISSN: 18788769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2015.10.061     Document Type: Article

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