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Elevated Patient Body Mass Index Does Not Negatively Affect Self-Reported Outcomes of Thoracolumbar Surgery: Results of a Comparative Observational Study with Minimum 1-Year Follow-Up
Study Design Retrospective study. Objective Quantify the effect of obesity on elective thoracolumbar spine surgery patients. Methods Five hundred consecutive adult patients undergoing thoracolumbar spine surgery to treat degenerative pathologies with minimum follow-up of at least 1 year were include...
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Georg Thieme Verlag KG
2015
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4771507/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26933611 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0035-1556585 |