Clinical neurology and neurosurgery
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Clin Neurol Neurosurg · Jul 2015
ReviewTo operate or not?: A literature review of surgical outcomes in 95 patients with Parkinson's disease undergoing spine surgery.
Degenerative spondylosis and kyphoscoliosis are increasingly recognized entities in patients with Parkinson's disease. Surgical treatment with spinal fusion can be complicated due to poor bone quality and muscular dysfunction in this patient population. The goal of this paper is to investigate surgical outcomes in Parkinson's patients undergoing spine surgery. ⋯ It remains unclear whether Parkinson's patients benefit from spinal fusion surgery. Further prospective research is warranted to investigate surgical outcomes in this subset of patients.