Functional Outcome of Elderly Patients Treated for Odontoid Fracture: A Multicenter Study

Pasquale De Bonis,Corrado Iaccarino,Antonio Musio,Antonio Martucci,Federico De Iure,Roberto Donati,Francesco Cultrera,Luigino Tosatto,Franco Servadei,Domenico Alesi,Michele Alessandro Cavallo,Reza Ghadirpour,Filippo Molinari,Giorgio Lofrese

Functional Outcome of Elderly Patients Treated for Odontoid Fracture: A Multicenter Study

2019

Pasquale De Bonis
Corrado Iaccarino
Antonio Musio
Antonio Martucci
Federico De Iure
Roberto Donati
Francesco Cultrera
Luigino Tosatto
Franco Servadei
Domenico Alesi
Michele Alessandro Cavallo
Reza Ghadirpour
Filippo Molinari
Giorgio Lofrese

MiniFunctional outcome of elderly patients treated for odontoid fracture is strictly related to their pre-injury level of function and comorbidity. Compared with conservative external immobilizations, surgery revealed no advantages in the elderly in terms of functional outcome.Study Design.Retrospec

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Surgery
Medicine
Fisher's exact test
Modified Rankin Scale
Comorbidity
Pain scale
Chi-square test
Arthrodesis
Fixation (histology)
Retrospective cohort study

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