Effect of Advanced Age in Subjective Surgical Outcome of Patients Undergoing Spine Surgery

Vassilios Dimopoulos; Kostas Fountas; Mozaffar Kassam; Carlos Feltes; Robert Vogel; Joe Sam Robinson; Arthur Grigorian

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Effect of Advanced Age in Subjective Surgical Outcome of Patients Undergoing Spine Surgery

Vassilios Dimopoulos, Kostas Fountas, Mozaffar Kassam, Carlos Feltes, Robert Vogel, Joe Sam Robinson, Arthur Grigorian

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Mercer University

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Abstract

Spine surgeons are often challenged by the treatment of elderly patients with degenerative spinal disease. We conducted a telephone survey of patients treated in our department to estimate the possible effect of age in surgical outcome.

Original language	American English
Journal	Southern Medical Journal
Volume	98
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/01.SMJ.0000161753.31008.F0
State	Published - Mar 1 2005

Keywords

Adult
Age factors
Analysis
Humans
Lumbar vertebrae
Middle-aged
Patient satisfaction
Retrospective studies
Spinal surgery
Treatment outcome
Variance

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Public Health
Biostatistics
Community Health

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