Acute and chronic pain are public health issues that clinicians have been battling for years. Opioid medications have been a treatment option for both chronic and acute pain; however, they…
Objective: Evaluate if dural tears (DT) are an indirect risk factor for venous thromboembolic disease through increased recumbency in patients undergoing elective lumbar decompression and instrumented fusion. Methods: A retrospective…
Background: New surgical techniques have been developed to minimize perioperative damage to paravertebral stabilizing musculotendinous system. Among them, midline lumbar fusion (MIDLF) shows to be a viable option. With data…
Introduction: Controversy exists regarding the optimal surgical treatment of degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis (DS). Not all DS patients are the same, and the degree to which inherent stability may dictate treatment…
Background: Controversy remains about the choice of reduction or arthrodesis in situ for surgical management of adolescent spondylolisthesis, while no systematic review and meta-analysis were performed to determine which one…
Purpose: Revision surgery for adjacent segment degeneration (ASD) commonly requires exposing and removing the original fixation. To minimize trauma and to reduce the operation time and blood loss, we introduced…
Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS), which often occurs concurrently with degenerative spondylolisthesis (DS), is a common disease in the elderly population, affecting the quality of life of aged people significantly. Notwithstanding…
Background: A major complication of lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) is cage subsidence, which may lead to clinical problems, including loss of disc height correction, altered spinal alignment, recurrent pain,…
Background: Traditional pedicle screws are currently the gold standard to achieve stable 3-column fixation of the degenerative lumbar spine. However, there are cases in which pedicle screw fixation may not…
Case Reports doi: 10.1159/000517652. Online ahead of print. Flavio Giordano 1 , Matteo Lenge 2 3 , Pierarturo Donati 1 , Lorenzo Mongardi 4 , Gianpiero Di Giacomo 1 5 , Regina Mura …