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Study design: A retrospective case control study. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare the surgical outcomes of multilevel lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LIF) and multilevel posterior lumbar…
Study design: An animal model of anterior lumbar arthrodesis was designed to investigate whether a calcium phosphate cement (CPC) mixed with autologous whole blood might favourably compete with autograft for…
. 2020 Jun 18;12(6):e8687. doi: 10.7759/cureus.8687. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Neurological Surgery, Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston-Salem, USA. 2 Neurological Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, USA. 3 Biostatistics and…
Background: The United States is facing an opioid addiction epidemic with >63,600 deaths from drug overdoses in 2016 alone. Ketorolac is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug that has been shown to…
Background: Severe, rigid thoracolumbar scoliosis presents a surgical challenge to achieve 3-dimensional correction, maximize distal motion segments, and avoid operative morbidity conferred by combined anterior-posterior approaches or 3-column osteotomies. We…
Background: Debate on whether to stop fusion at L5 or to extend fusion to S1 in a long spinal construct has been a controversial topic in spine surgery. Fewer data…
Background: The Short Form-12 (SF-12) was developed as a shorter version of the SF-36, yet there has been limited validation of its reliability at measuring postoperative changes. The purpose of…
Purpose: It is unclear if minimally invasive techniques reduce the rate of perioperative complications when compared to traditional open approaches to the lumbar spine. Our aim was to evaluate perioperative…
Objective: To investigate the relationship between spine-pelvic sagittal parameters and clinical efficacy before and after oblique lumbar interbody fusion(OLIF). Methods: A retrospective analysis of clinical data of 65 patients with…