Study design: Prospective cohort study. Objective: Evaluate changes in gait, pain, and psychosocial factors among degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis (DLS) patients before and 3 months after surgical intervention. Methods: Forty-four symptomatic…
Study design: Retrospective single-center study. Objective: Investigate the effect of posterior instrumentation on the relationship between lordosis and kyphosis. Methods: Surgically treated patients with a minimum of 6 months of…
Study design: Retrospective case-control radiographic study. Objective: To identify risk factors for immediate postoperative coronal imbalance in degenerative lumbar scoliosis (DLS) patients fused to pelvis. Methods: A total of 71…
Study design: Observational study. Objective: To investigate whether the progression of anterior longitudinal ligament ossification varies by age among patients with diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH). Methods: Of the patients…
Study design: Retrospective study. Objective: To examine whether atherosclerosis has negative impacts on early adjacent segment degeneration (ASD) after posterior lumbar interbody fusion using traditional trajectory pedicle screw fixation (TT-PLIF).…
Study design: Retrospective cohort study. Objectives: To assess whether the addition of L5-S1 anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) improves global sagittal alignment and fusion rates in patients undergoing multilevel spinal…
Study design: A retrospective, comparative study. Objective: To determine the radiological behavior of the lumbar curve in selective fusions in premenarchal girls with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (Lenke 1 B/C). Methods:…
Study design.: Retrospective cohort study. Objectives: To clinically evaluate saphenous nerve somatosensory-evoked potentials (SSEPs) as a reliable and predictable way to detect upper lumbar plexus injury intraoperatively during lateral lumbar…
Study design: Retrospective analysis. Objective: Lumbar disc herniation is one the most common condition responsible for low back and radicular pain. Although the symptoms are not proportional to the size…
Study design: Retrospective cohort study. Objective: Complication profiles for lateral approaches to the spine are well established. However, the influence of level of surgery on complication rates and subtypes are…