Obesity and spine surgery: Relation to perioperative complications

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 291-297

  Patel, Nimesh ^a   Bagan, Bradley ^a   Vadera, Sumeet ^b   Maltenfort, Mitchell Gil ^b   Deutsch, Harel ^a   Vaccaro, Alexander R ^b   Harrop, James ^b   Sharan, Ashwini ^b   Ratliff, John K ^a,b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Complications; Fusion; Obesity; Positioning related palsy; Spine surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY POSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTUBATION; LIQUORRHEA; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; OBESITY; PARALYSIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL RISK; THORACIC SPINE; THORAX SURGERY; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; WOUND INFECTION; ARTICLE; INCIDENCE; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MIDDLE AGED; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RISK FACTOR; SPINE DISEASE; STATISTICS; VERTEBRA;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PARALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FUSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 85047696849     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/spi.2007.6.4.1     Document Type: Review

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