Introduction: Intraspinal facet cysts resistant to conservative treatment are treated surgically. Surgical treatment was generally resection and decompression, but complications of dural tear and recurrence sometimes occurred. We present good…
Background context: Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (ALIF) and Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion (LLIF) with percutaneous posterior screw fixation are two techniques used to address degenerative lumbar pathologies. Traditionally, these anterior-posterior…
Study design: Retrospective case series. Purpose: This study aimed to analyze how the sagittal spinopelvic alignment is influenced by an attempted surgical reduction of the L5-S1 segment in patients with…
Background: Selective thoracolumbar/lumbar fusion technique was introduced to treat adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) patients with major thoracolumbar/lumbar curves. Theoretically, this surgical strategy could also be applied to syringomyelia patients. No…
Objective: Lower back pain associated with degenerative disc disease (DDD) is a leading cause of disability worldwide. ALIF has been shown to be effective for treating refractory DDD, but it…
Introduction: Spinal fusion is one of the most common procedure as the treatment of lumbar pathology, this procedure not only stops the progression of spinal pathology, but also immobilizes the…
Background: Postoperative paralytic ileus is not a rare complication after lumbar spinal surgery especially in elderly patients. Chewing is a kind of sham feeding that has been reported to stimulate…
Background: There is a paucity of reports clarifying the implication of knee osteoarthritis (OA) on spinal sagittal alignment of patients undergone surgery for lumbar spine. This study aimed to analyze…
Background: Improvement in patient-reported outcomes after minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MIS-TLIF) is poorly defined. As such, the purpose of this study was to quantify improvements in Visual Analogue…
Background: It has been generally recommended that platelet function may recover after the recommended 5-day discontinuation period prior to operation. The technique of thromboelastography has been demonstrated to monitor intraoperative…