John Ratliff
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Obesity and spine surgery: relation to perioperative complications.
J Neurosurg Spine. 2007; (4): 291-7
Many patients undergoing elective thoracic or lumbar fusion procedures are obese, but the contribution of obesity to complications in spine surgery has not been defined. The authors retrospectively assessed the prevalence of obesity in a cohort of patients undergoing thoracic and lumbar fusion and correlate the presence of obesity with the incidence of operative complications.
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