doi: 10.3389/fsurg.2021.708243. eCollection 2021. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Department of Neurosurgery, Kepler University Hospital, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria. 2 Department of Mathematics, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria. Item in…
Review doi: 10.3390/life11070696. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Yeungnam University College of Medicine, Yeungnam University Hospital, Daegu 42415, Korea. 2 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hanil…
Background context: Conservative methods are the traditional options in management of Lumber Spondylolysis while operative interference is indicated for symptomatic not responding patients to medical treatment and cases with multilevel…
Background: Lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) is a novel, minimally invasive technique for the surgical treatment of lumbar diseases. The aim of this study was to identify the incidence and…
Objective: Sustained postoperative opioid use after elective surgery is a matter of growing concern. Herein, the authors investigated incidence and predictors of long-term opioid use among patients undergoing elective lumbar…
Objective: There is a paucity of research on the safety of overlapping surgery. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of overlapping surgery on a homogenous population…
Objective: The authors compared primary lumbar spine fusions with revision fusions by using patient Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) scores to evaluate the impact of the North American Spine Society (NASS)…
Objective: Hip-spine syndrome has been well studied since it was first described by Offierski and MacNab in 1983. Today, strong evidence links symptoms of hip and spine pathology to postsurgical…
In scoliosis, most of the deformity is in the disc and occurs during the period of rapid growth. The ring apophyses form the insertion of the disc into the vertebral…
Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of gelatin sponge impregnated with ropivacaine on postoperative pain after transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) in patients with lumbar…