Although minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MIS-TLIF) is the most common procedure in minimally invasive spine stabilization (MISt), details of the technique remain unclear. This technical report shows the…
Background: Wound complications are associated with worse satisfaction and additional costs in patients undergoing posterior lumbar fusion (PLF) surgery, and the relationship between enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) pathway and…
Purpose: To determine long-term outcome in terms of spinal range of motion (ROM) and trunk muscle endurance (TME) patients treated for idiopathic scoliosis, diagnosed before the age of ten, were…
Background: Adequate discectomy and endplate preparation are extremely crucial steps for spinal interbody fusion. Minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion MITLIF technique is safe and effective. However, concerns exist regarding…
Background: Lumbar puncture (LP) may be challenging for patients with scoliosis and other conditions following previous posterior fusion and instrumentation from thoracic to sacral levels. Interventional radiologists have described CT…
Study design: Retrospective study. Purpose: The upper end vertebra (UEV) is often selected as the upper instrumented vertebra (UIV) in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) with Lenke type 5C…
Objective: To explore the clinical effect of the modified Topping-off technique in the treatment of multiple lumbar degenerative diseases. Methods: From October 2019 to May 2020, 42 patients who underwent…
Background: Various surgical techniques for treating spondylodiscitis have been proposed, but the optimal surgical treatment remains controversial. In this study, we propose a new procedure that is implanting antibiotic-loaded calcium…
Osteoporosis and degenerative spinal disease are still an unsolvable surgical problem. It is still difficult to solve the complications related to postoperative osteoporosis, such as cage subsidence, displacement, and retraction.…
Case Reports . 2022 Feb 10;14(2):e22096. doi: 10.7759/cureus.22096. eCollection 2022 Feb. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Orthopedic Surgery, Prisma Health-Midlands/University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA. 2 Medical Education, Lincoln Memorial University-DeBusk…