Impact of Age on Short-term Outcomes After Lumbar Fusion
- 1 September 2015
- journal article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Neurosurgery
- Vol. 77 (3), 347-354
- https://doi.org/10.1227/neu.0000000000000852
Abstract
Patients older than 65 years of age have significantly higher rates of complications after lumbar fusion when compared to younger patients. However, multivariable analysis revealed that age was not an independent risk factor for complication occurrence after lumbar fusion.Keywords
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