doi: 10.3390/medicines8090050. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, China Medical University, Taichung 40402, Taiwan. 2 Department of Neurosurgery, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung 40447, Taiwan. 3 Department…
"Non-surgical orthopaedic therapies of the spine in the elderly. Non-surgical orthopaedic therapies of the spine in the elderly Aging is responsible for several spine pathologies characterized by static disorders. These…
Introduction: We report a case and a literature review of delayed postoperative cervical spinal cord injury after thoraco-lumbar spine surgery. Case report: A 13-year-old Prader-Willi Syndrome female was treated by…
Objective: To assess the effect that correction of lower lumbar lordosis (3L) has on global spine realignment due to the key role of 3L for scoliosis surgery in patients with…
Study design: Retrospective review of prospectively collected data at a single institution. Objective: To compare perioperative and clinical outcomes in morbidly obese patients who underwent minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody…
Study design: Prospective Cohort Study. Objective: The aim of this paper is to compare the mid- to long-term patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) between single-level total disc arthroplasty (TDA), multi-level TDA,…
Study design: Retrospective cohort study. Objective: To investigate the clinical and radiographic differences between patients who underwent anterior lumber interbody fusion (ALIF) with either open or percutaneous posterior fusion for…
Objective: Circumferential minimally invasive spine surgery (cMIS) for adult scoliosis has become more advanced and powerful, but direct comparison with traditional open correction using prospectively collected data is limited. The…
Objective: Pelvic obliquity is frequently observed in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis with thoracolumbar/lumbar (TL/L) curve. This study aimed to assess pelvic obliquity changes and their effects on clinical outcomes…
Objective: Time to return to work (RTW) after elective lumbar spine surgery is variable and dependent on many factors including patient, work-related, and surgical factors. The primary objective of this…