Background context: Due to financial pressures associated with healthcare reforms, an increasing number of hospitals are now merging (or consolidating) into networks (or systems). However, it remains unclear how these…
. 2020 May 6;S1878-8750(20)30945-1. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.04.235. Online ahead of print. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Section of Neurosurgery, Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital, Vero Beach, Florida, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, The…
Case Reports . 2020 May 7;S1878-8750(20)30944-X. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.04.234. Online ahead of print. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Department Orthopaedic Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA,…
Case Reports . 2020 Jan 20;2020:2163909. doi: 10.1155/2020/2163909. eCollection 2020. Affiliations Expand Affiliation 1 Department of Orthopedics, Peking University Shougang Hospital, Shijingshang District, Beijing 100144, China. Free PMC article Item…
Case Reports . 2020 Feb 12;16(1):105-109. doi: 10.13004/kjnt.2020.16.e1. eCollection 2020 Apr. Affiliations Expand Affiliation 1 Department of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea. Free PMC article Item in…
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Minimally invasive posterior lumbar interbody fusion and percutaneous instrumentation were introduced in the clinical practice with the aim to reduce the damage to musculoligamentous structures associated…
Background: Most contemporary studies suggested that intersegmental parameters including disc height and local lordosis contribute to the sagittal balance of fused lumbar. Although similar clinical outcomes following MIS- and Open-TLIF…
Objective: To investigate the change of spinopelvic sagittal balance and clinical outcomes after posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) in patients with degenerative spondylolisthesis (DS), especially the relationship between sagittal spinopelvic…
. 2020 Jan 11;2020:9016219. doi: 10.1155/2020/9016219. eCollection 2020. Affiliations Expand Affiliation 1 Department of Spinal Surgery, The Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050051, China. Free PMC article…
Introduction: There are several reports about invasive muscle injury during posterior spinal surgery. However, few reports have evaluated the association between the clinical symptoms and changes in the physical properties…