Does Approach Matter? Comparison of Early Postoperative Life-threatening Complications in Elderly Patients With Multilevel Cervical Stenosis
Among elderly patients undergoing 3 or more levels of cervical spine surgery, there were comparable rates of 30-day life-threatening complications between the 2 approaches. However, potential selection bias exists, with surgeons possibly favoring posterior surgery for patients with higher-risk comorbidities.
Authors
- Tejas Subramanian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0323-6716)
- Tomoyuki Asada (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3470-5546)
- Izzet Akosman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1433-9078)
- Evan Sheha (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4339-6079)
- Omri Maayan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2581-5447)
- Nishtha Singh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6149-9939)
- Francis Lovecchio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5236-1420)
- Anthony Pajak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5649-9459)
- Kasra Araghi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0061-2640)
- James Dowdell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9852-4133)
- Eric Mai
- Sheeraz A. Qureshi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7177-1756)
- Olivia Tuma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0156-7152)
- Maximilian Korsun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7289-7564)
- Pratyush Shahi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4903-9697)
- Amy Lu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0090-3141)
- Yeo Eun Kim
- Sravisht Iyer
Institutions
- Hospital for Special Surgery (US)
- University of Tsukuba (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Clinical Spine Surgery A Spine Publication
- Published
- 2024-12-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/bsd.0000000000001692
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.57