OBJECTIVE: Unplanned preventable hospital readmissions within 30 days are a great burden to patients and the healthcare system. With an estimated $41.3 billion spent yearly, reducing such readmission rates is…
Training surgeons to perform minimally invasive spinal (MIS) surgery is difficult because there are few realistic alternatives to human cadavers which are expensive and require special handling. In this study…
BACKGROUND: The optimal management of lumbar synovial cysts (LSC) has always been controversial. Open or minimally invasive partial hemilaminotomy as a direct decompression approach has been widely studied. Whereas, to…
STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional radio-anatomical study OBJECTIVE.: To analyse the prevalence, size and location of the oblique corridor (OC), and the morphology of the psoas muscle at the L4-L5 disc level.SUMMARY…
STUDY DESIGN: Prospective cohort study.OBJECTIVE: To compare the long-term, radiographic coronal and sagittal outcomes of these two approaches at 10-year follow-up.SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Both anterior and posterior instrumented fusions…
STUDY DESIGN: A retrospective study.OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of degeneration of paraspinal muscles, including psoas muscles, erector spinae muscles and multifidus muscles on pedicle screw loosening at lower instrumented…
STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective cohort.OBJECTIVE: We present a universal model of risk prediction for patients undergoing elective cervical and lumbar spine surgery.SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Previous studies illustrate predictive risk models…
PURPOSE: To define and analyze the learning curve of percutaneous endoscopic transforaminal decompression (PETD) for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS).METHODS: From July 2015 to September 2016, 78 patients underwent PETD; one…
The pathogenesis of lumbar adjacent segment disease is thought to be secondary to altered biomechanics resulting from fusion. Direct in vivo evidence for altered biomechanics following lumbar fusion is lacking.…