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Our study aims at investigating short and long-term outcomes following surgery for subaxial spine injuries in the elderly (octogenarian) population.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
|---|---|---|---|
| Younger cohort (<80 years) |
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| octogenarians (≥80 years) |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spine decompression and fixation surgery | Procedure | Surgery is performed by either an anterior or posterior approach. Anterior approach is performed with either discectomy or corpectomy accompanied fusion, while the posterior approach consist in a bilateral laminectomy accompanied by fusion. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Postoperative complications | medical or surgical complications | 30-day postoperative period |
| Mortality | death | End of the study period (or end of data collection) |
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The study hospital is a publicly funded tertiary care center serving a region of approximately 2.3 million inhabitants and the region's only level 1 trauma center. Patients were identified through the surgical management software Orbit (Evry Healthcare Systems, Solna, Sweden).
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Karolinska University Hospital | Stockholm | Sweden |
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| ID | Term |
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| D013124 | Spinal Injuries |
| D014947 | Wounds and Injuries |
| ID | Term |
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| D019567 | Back Injuries |
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| ID | Term |
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| D007796 | Laminectomy |
| ID | Term |
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| D019637 | Orthopedic Procedures |
| D013812 | Therapeutics |
| D019299 | Decompression, Surgical |
| D013514 | Surgical Procedures, Operative |
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| D019635 | Neurosurgical Procedures |