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SUBMITTER: Senker W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3176708 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Senker Wolfgang W Meznik Christian C Avian Alexander A Berghold Andrea A
European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society 20110125 7
The medical profession is increasingly confronted with the epidemic phenomenon of obesity. Its impact on spine surgery is not quite clear. Published data concerning the use of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) in the spine among obese patients is scarce. The purpose of the present retrospective study was to evaluate perioperative as well as postoperative complication rates in MIS fusion of the lumbar spine in obese, overweight and normal patients classified according to their body mass index. Lum ...[more]