A Comparison of the Clinical Outcomes of Decompression Alone and Fusion in Elderly Patients with Two-Level or More Lumbar Spinal Stenosis |
Son, Seong
(Department of Neurosurgery, Gachon University Gil Medical Center)
Kim, Woo Kyung (Department of Neurosurgery, Gachon University Gil Medical Center) Lee, Sang Gu (Department of Neurosurgery, Gachon University Gil Medical Center) Park, Chan Woo (Department of Neurosurgery, Gachon University Gil Medical Center) Lee, Keun (Department of Neurosurgery, Gachon University Gil Medical Center) |
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