A pilot study to propose a treatment-based classification for subgrouping patients with surgically treated degenerative lumbar spine with focus on comparing decompression versus decompression with fusion
Objective and background: Degenerative lumbar spine and chronic back pain is a heterogeneous disorder with controversies over the correlation of degenerative image findings to pain generation. This resulted in variable treatment response and the risk of overdoing unnecessary surgery and instrumentat...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery |
| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214751918301579 |