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Surgical outcomes after instrumented lumbar surgery in patients of eighty years of age and older

BACKGROUND: In Taiwan, the life expectancy of an 80-year-old man is 88.4 years and the life expectancy of an 80-year-old woman is 89.8 years. Some of these people will develop symptomatic degenerative lumbar diseases that interfere with an active lifestyle. These older surgical candidates usually as...

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Autores principales: Liao, Jen-Chung, Chiu, Ping-Yeh, Chen, Wen-Jer, Chen, Lih-Hui, Niu, Chi-Chien
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5034678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27658815
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-016-1239-9