Study design: Retrospective study. Objective: The authors aimed to compare the clinical outcomes of biportal endoscopic transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (BE-TLIF) with those of minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion…
Study design: A retrospective subgroup analysis of a prospective observational study was carried out. Summary of background data: Patients' baseline characteristics may influence the clinical outcomes after minimally invasive lumbar…
Context/objective: At present, there is no consensus on the most effective surgical method for treating symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). Total laminectomy, which is frequently used at this time, destroys…
Background: The factors driving the best outcomes following minimally invasive surgery (MIS) for grade 1 degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis are not clearly elucidated. Objective: To investigate the factors that drive the…
Review . 2020 Jul;51(3):423-425. doi: 10.1016/j.ocl.2020.02.006. Epub 2020 Mar 19. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee-Campbell Clinic, 1211 Union Avenue, Suite 510,…
Objective: To evaluate the outcomes of debridement fusion surgery between two surgical approaches for one- or two-level lumbar vertebral osteomyelitis (LVO): oblique retroperitoneal approach (ORA) and posterior transpedicular approach (PTA).…
Background: Surgical treatment consisting of decompression and fusion is generally known to produce good clinical results for lumbar spinal stenosis with degenerative spondylolisthesis. However, the clinical outcome of decompression alone,…
. May-Jun 2020;36(4):663-667. doi: 10.12669/pjms.36.4.1170. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Farooq Azam, Department of Neurosurgery Medical and Teaching Institute, Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan. 2 Seema Sharafat, Department of Neurosurgery Medical…
Background: An engorged venous plexus may mimic nerve compression from a herniated disk on the magnetic resonance (MR) studies as they both have similar signal intensities. During a laminectomy, if…
Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the long term effects of posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF), applied after recurrent lumbar disc herniation (rLDH), on pain relief and…