. 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…
. 2020 Jun 30;14(3):321-326. doi: 10.14444/7043. eCollection 2020 Jun. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 University of Southern California, California, Los Angeles, California. 2 University of Riverside, Riverside, California. 3 Loma Linda…
Background: Diabetes mellitus is one of the leading causes of morbidity resulting in multi-organ dysfunction. Animal studies have shown that hyperglycemia results in stress-induced senescence through the p16-pRb pathway, thereby…
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…
Introduction: As minimally invasive spine surgery gains popularity, a focused effort must be made to reduce intraoperative radiation exposure to levels as low as reasonably achievable. Here, we demonstrate the…
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…
Objective: To compare clinical effect of cortical bone trajectory (CBT) screw and pedicle screw (PS) internal fixation in treating senile patients with lumbar tuberculosis. Methods: From January 2014 to January…