Chronic lower lumbar pain has been associated with elevated bone metabolic activity in the spine. Diagnosis of bone metabolic activity is currently through integrating Positron Emission Tomography (PET) with Sodium…
Lumbar fusion surgery has grown in popularity as a solution to lower back pain. Surgical site infection (SSI) is a serious complication of spinal surgery, affecting as high as 8.5%…
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Many studies have demonstrated that discogenic low back pain is the most common type of chronic low back pain (CLBP), one of the major causes of disability,…
STUDY DESIGN: A prospective observational study with a historical reference group.OBJECTIVES: The main objectives of this study were to determine the impact of preventative multimodal analgesia (PMA) on postoperative opioid…
STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective.OBJECTIVE: To investigate the prevalence and risk factors of postsurgical foot complaints (PFCs) following spinal surgery by using a modified pain drawing (PD) instrument.SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Although…
OBJECTIVE: The Medicaid patient population and health care costs for spine surgeries among these patients have increased since 2010. Hospital length of stay (LOS) contributes appreciably to hospital costs for…
Adjacent segment disease (ASD) is one of the potential risks after lumbar spine surgery with instrumentation. Revision surgery needs to be performed on patients suffered from ASD. The traditional open…
OBJECTIVE: Surgery is indicated when antibiotic treatment fails in pyogenic spondylodiscitis, which is caused by pathogens such as the Staphylococcus species. The aim of the present study was to investigate…
To compare imaging indicators and clinical effects of extreme lateral interbody fusion (XLIF) using allogenic bone, autologous bone marrow + allogenic bone, and rhBMP-2 + allogenic bone as bone graft materials in the treatment…
To identify independent factors associated with prolonged hospital length of stay (LOS) in elderly patients undergoing first-time elective open posterior lumbar fusion surgery.We retrospectively analyzed the data of 303 elderly…
