Background: Golf is a commonly played sport among older adults, and degenerative and/or deformity spine pathology can severely impact older individuals' ability to play golf. In a cohort of self-identified,…
Background: The goal of minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MI TLIF) is to restore and maintain disc height and lordosis until arthrodesis occurs, while minimizing muscle disruption and improving…
Background: Cellular allogeneic bone grafts are used as a biologic adjuvant in lumbar spinal fusions. The clinical use of a minimally invasive extreme lateral approach to the lumbar spine has…
Background: Few studies directly compare the effect of interbody cages with different degrees of lordosis in producing segmental lumbar lordosis (SLL) in the transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) procedure. Thus,…
Background: Adjacent segment degeneration (ASD) is a frequent complication following vertebral fusion procedures and is defined as the condition where patients recover after the initial procedure but develop compatible symptoms…
Review doi: 10.21037/jss-21-57. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Interventional Radiology Service, Monash Imaging, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Victoria, Australia. 2 School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria,…
Case Reports doi: 10.21037/jss-20-676. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Department of Neurosurgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA. 2 Surgical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes…
Background and objective: Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS), or the narrowing of the spinal canal, continues to be the leading preoperative diagnosis for adults older than 65 years who undergo spine…
Study design: Retrospective clinical case series. Objectives: To investigate the risk factors for intraoperative endplate violations and delayed cage subsidence after oblique lateral interbody fusion (OLIF) surgery. Secondly, to examine…
Objective: This paper was a anatomical radiographic study of distance between lumbar bi-cortical pedicle screws (BPSs) and anterior large vessels (ALVs) in patients with lumbar spondylolisthesis, and to provide clinical…