Peri-operative complications of lumbar spine surgery in patients over eighty five years of age: a retrospective cohort study

ConclusionsAlthough instrumentation is considered more invasive than decompression, we detected no statistically significant differences in peri-operative complication rates between these two types of surgery in ≥ 85-year-old patients. Surgeons should perform instrumentation even in the patients over 85 years with ASA class 3 or less.

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Source: International Orthopaedics - March 13, 2018 Category: Orthopaedics Source Type: research