Spondylolisthesis refers to the displacement of a vertebral body relative to the vertrabra below it, which can cause radicular symptoms, back pain or leg pain. It usually occurs in the…
Case Reports . 2022 Aug 29;58(9):1172. doi: 10.3390/medicina58091172. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Department of Neurological Surgery, Ochsner Health, New Orleans, LA 70121, USA. 2 Department of Neurosurgery, Northwell Health, Manhasset,…
Background: Few studies have examined the changes in cervical sagittal alignment (CSA) and its relationship with other sagittal alignments in AIS patients with major thoracolumbar/lumbar (TL/L) curve who underwent correction…
Study design: Case control study. Objective: Micro-lumbar discectomy or Interbody fusion procedure are work-horse surgical procedures in management of lumbar disc disease. Spine surgeon in their early years of practice…
Study design: Retrospective review. Objectives: This study aimed to assess and compare the clinical course and complications between surgical decompression and decompression with fusion in lumbar spine patients aged ≥80…
Study design: A retrospective study. Objectives: To evaluate the impact of upper instrumented vertebra (UIV) orientation including the fused spinopelvic angle (FSPA) on proximal junctional kyphosis (PJK). Summary of background…
Background: Iatrogenic pseudomeningocele incidence after lumbar surgery is 0.068%-2%, and most lumbar pseudomeningoceles are smaller than 5 cm; however, in rare cases, "giant" pseudomeningoceles greater than 8 cm in size…
Background: Minimally invasive bilateral decompressive lumbar laminectomy with a unilateral approach is a less destructive procedure compared to the traditional open bilateral laminectomy. The objective of this study is to…
Purpose: To compare direct costs of index and revision operations of thoracic posterior spinal instrumented fusion (TPSIF) and thoracic anterior spinal tethering (TAST) for adolescent idiopathic thoracic scoliosis in children.…
Background: Spinal extradural hemangioblastomas (HBs) are quite uncommon, with most reported cases involving the thoracic and lumbar areas. Therefore, the presence of a dumbbell-shaped pure extradural cervical HB is exceptional,…