TY - JOUR AU - Harato, Kengo AU - Yagi, Mitsuru AU - Fujita, Nobuyuki AU - Kobayashi, Shu AU - Ohya, Akihito AU - Kaneda, Kazuya AU - Iwama, Yu AU - Nakamura, Masaya AU - Matsumoto, Morio PY - 2019 DA - 2019/09/06 TI - Effect of body mass index on surgical times of lumbar laminoplasty and lower limb arthroplasties JO - BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders SP - 416 VL - 20 IS - 1 AB - Obesity is an important factor affecting incidence and development of musculoskeletal degenerative changes. In addition, obese patients are considered less favorable surgical candidates for decompression surgery in degenerative lumbar spinal canal stenosis and lower limb arthroplasty. The purpose was to assess disease characteristics of lumbar spinal canal stenosis as well as lower limb osteoarthritis, and to investigate surgical times based on body mass index (BMI) in lumbar decompressive surgery and lower limb arthroplasties. SN - 1471-2474 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-019-2788-5 DO - 10.1186/s12891-019-2788-5 ID - Harato2019 ER -