STUDY DESIGN: A retrospective cohort study.OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) score and patient-reported outcomes (PROs) after minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MIS…
STUDY DESIGN: This was a retrospective study.OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine the incidence and risk factors for postoperative complications following minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion…
STUDY DESIGN: This was a retrospective cohort study.OBJECTIVE: To assess the utility of Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Information System Physical Function (PROMIS PF) in assessing postoperative recovery on the basis of…
Proximal junctional failure (PJF) is the greatest challenge after posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF). The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of percutaneous cement injection (PCI) for…
Background and objective: Existing orthopaedic robotic systems are almost restricted to provide guidance for trajectory direction. In the present study, a novel spinal robotic system with automatic drilling power was…
Achondroplasia has an effect on intracartilaginous ossification during the development of the spine resulting in a narrow spinal canal. This abnormal anatomy could make an achondroplastic patient tend to have…
For those patients who suffer from low back pain generated by the sacroiliac (SI) joint, fusion of the SI joint has proven to be an effective means of stabilizing it…
CASE: We report a rare cervical hyperlordotic deformity in a 19-year-old woman with Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy and concomitant scoliosis. After standard posterolateral instrumentation and fusion of C2-T1 and extensive soft-tissue…
Background: Extreme lateral interbody fusions (XLIF) and Minimally Invasive (MIS) XLIF pose significant risks of neural injury to the; lumbar plexus, ilioinguinal, iliohypogastric, genitofemoral, lateral femoral cutaneous, and subcostal nerves.…