Functional and radiological outcomes of 360 degrees fusion of three or more motion levels in the lumbar spine for degenerative disc disease

• Published in: Spine (Philadelphia, Pa. 1976) Vol. 34; no. 10; p. E351
• Main Authors: Suratwala, Sanjeev J, Pinto, Manuel R, Gilbert, Thomas J, Winter, Robert B, Wroblewski, Jill M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.05.2009
• Subjects: Activities of Daily Living; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Disability Evaluation; Female; Humans; Internal Fixators - statistics & numerical data; Intervertebral Disc - diagnostic imaging; Intervertebral Disc - pathology; Intervertebral Disc - surgery; Intervertebral Disc Displacement - diagnostic imaging; Intervertebral Disc Displacement - pathology; Intervertebral Disc Displacement - surgery; Lumbar Vertebrae - diagnostic imaging; Lumbar Vertebrae - pathology; Lumbar Vertebrae - surgery; Male; Middle Aged; Outcome Assessment (Health Care); Radiography; Range of Motion, Articular - physiology; Retrospective Studies; Spinal Fusion - instrumentation; Spinal Fusion - methods; Surgical Wound Infection - epidemiology; Surveys and Questionnaires; Treatment Outcome

This is a single-center, multisurgeon, retrospective study of radiologic and functional outcome measures at a minimum 2-year follow-up. We studied the radiologic and functional outcomes following 3 or more motion segment fusions of the lumbar spine for low back pain due to multilevel degenerative di...