Surgical Outcomes of Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion in Elderly Patients

Shinya Okuda, Takenori Oda, Akira Miyauchi, Takamitsu Haku, Tomio Yamamoto, Motoki Iwasaki

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery · 2006 · 209 citations · 24 references

Abstract

No obvious differences in the clinical results were observed between the age groups with the numbers available. Postoperative adjacent segment degeneration was less frequent and collapsed union and delayed union were more common in the elderly group. The fusion results did not appear to affect the postoperative clinical results in this study.

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