Background: This study aimed to analyze the efficacy of the simultaneous rectification of adjacent asymptomatic lumbar disc herniation (asLDH) of L5-S1 isthmic spondylolisthesis (IS). Methods: One hundred and forty-eight patients…
Case Reports . 2022 Jul 29;14(7):e27457. doi: 10.7759/cureus.27457. eCollection 2022 Jul. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Division of Spine Surgery, Central Clinical Hospital of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, RUS.…
Oblique lumbar interbody fusion (OLIF) is a popular technique for the treatment of degenerative lumbar spinal disease. There are no clear guidelines on whether direct posterior decompression (PD) is necessary…
doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2022.943092. eCollection 2022. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Department of Orthopedics, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. 2 National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases, Beijing, China. 3 Beijing…
Background: Accounting for less than 0.4% of disc herniations, intradural lumbar disc herniations (ILDHs) are a rare occurrence primarily described as a complication after lumbar spine surgery. It is speculated…
Background: Oblique lateral interbody fusion (OLIF) involves the antepsoas approach and psoas major muscle (PMM) retraction to insert the interbody cage orthogonally. Therefore, OLIF is often associated with postoperative anterior…
Objective: There are few prior reports of acute pelvic instrumentation failure in spinal deformity surgery. The objective of this study was to determine if a previously identified mechanism and rate…
Objective: The aim of this study was to radiographically compare cage subsidence and displacement between L5-S1 lateral anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) cages secured with an anterior buttress plate and…
Background: Current spine postoperative pain control protocols consider the expected pain following spine fusion surgery to correlate with surgical extent, i.e. the greater the number of operated vertebrae, the greater…
Int J Numer Method Biomed Eng . 2022 Aug 22;e3645. doi: 10.1002/cnm.3645. Online ahead of print. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China.…