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The Prevalence of Undiagnosed Presurgical Cognitive Impairment and Its Postsurgical Clinical Impact in Older Patients Undergoing Lumbar Spine Surgery

OBJECTIVE: Because elderly patients are undergoing more surgeries, the importance of postoperative cognitive impairment (CI) evaluations is rising, especially for spine surgery, which is related to subjective pain. We investigated the prevalence of undiagnosed CI among elderly patients who underwent...

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Autores principales: Lee, Young-Seok, Kim, Young-Baeg, Lee, Shin-Heon, Park, Yong-Sook, Park, Seung-Won
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Neurosurgical Society 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4877553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27226862
http://dx.doi.org/10.3340/jkns.2016.59.3.287