Study design: Systematic review. Objectives: We sought to synthesize the literature investigating the disparities that Medicaid patients sustain with regards to 2 types of elective spine surgery, lumbar fusion (LF)…
Purposes: In this study, we aimed to analyze the clinical outcomes of percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic debridement and drainage (PTEDD) with accurate pathogen detection for patients with infectious spondylitis of the…
. 2022 May 30;14(5):e25509. doi: 10.7759/cureus.25509. eCollection 2022 May. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, JPN. 2 Department of Orthopaedics, Medical Sciences…
Background Minimally invasive lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) offers advantages over traditional approaches, providing indirect decompression of neural elements and deformity correction while avoiding many challenges and risks of anterior…
Background: Minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MIS-TLIF) is an effective surgical option for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) with spondylolisthesis. However, few studies have discussed oblique lateral interbody fusion (OLIF)…
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Objective: Oblique lumbar interbody fusion (OLIF) is a minimally invasive lumbar fusion procedure that has flourished in recent years. However, complications related to the anterior-to-psoas (ATP) approach have been reported.…
Background: Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) attempts to decrease the surgical stress response to minimize postoperative complications and improve functional rehabilitation after major surgery, but it has not been widely…
doi: 10.1007/s10856-022-06671-6. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. 2 School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110819, China. 3 School of Mechanical…
Background: The treatment of post-laminectomy lumbar radiculopathy in the setting of a large posterolateral fusion mass presents an anatomic challenge to the spine interventionalist. Objective: To describe outcomes of awake,…