Effect of advanced age in subjective surgical outcome of patients undergoing spine surgery [1]

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

doi:10.1097/01.SMJ.0000161753.31008.F0

Effect of advanced age in subjective surgical outcome of patients undergoing spine surgery [1]

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	English
Pages (from-to)	579-580
Number of pages	2
Journal	Southern Medical Journal
Volume	98
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/01.SMJ.0000161753.31008.F0
State	Published - May 2005

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