Title: Clinical outcomes and safety assessment in elderly patients undergoing
decompressive laminectomy for lumbar spinal stenosis: a prospective study
A S Jakola(1), A Sørlie(2, 3), S Gulati(1,4), O P Nygaard(1, 3, 5), S Lydersen (6), T Solberg(2, 3).
1. Department of Neurosurgery, St.Olavs Hospital HF, N-7006 Trondheim, Norway.
2. Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of North Norway, N-9038 Tromsø, Norway.
3. The Norwegian National Registry for Spine Surgery, SKDE, North Norway Regional Health
Authority, Tromsø, Norway.
4. Department of laboratory medicine, Children’s and Women’s Health, Norwegian University
of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
5. National Center for Spinal Disorders, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science
and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
6. Department for Applied Clinical Research, Children’s and Women’s Health, Norwegian
University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Corresponding author:
Asgeir Store Jakola
e-mail: asjakola@yahoo.no
Telephone:
+47 72 57 55 67
Fax:
+47 72 57 57 65
Address:
Department of Neurosurgery
St. Olavs Hospital HF
N-7006 Trondheim, Norway
Conflict of interests/acknowledgements: Dr. Gulati has received financial support from Sparebanken
Møre and the Family Blix Fund for medical research.