Background: Minimally invasive bilateral decompressive lumbar laminectomy with a unilateral approach is a less destructive procedure compared to the traditional open bilateral laminectomy. The objective of this study is to…
Purpose: To compare direct costs of index and revision operations of thoracic posterior spinal instrumented fusion (TPSIF) and thoracic anterior spinal tethering (TAST) for adolescent idiopathic thoracic scoliosis in children.…
Background: Spinal extradural hemangioblastomas (HBs) are quite uncommon, with most reported cases involving the thoracic and lumbar areas. Therefore, the presence of a dumbbell-shaped pure extradural cervical HB is exceptional,…
Published Erratum . 2022 Sep 16;2022(9):rjac450. doi: 10.1093/jscr/rjac450. eCollection 2022 Sep. No authors listed Item in Clipboard Published Erratum No authors listed. J Surg Case Rep. 2022. Show details Display…
Purpose To describe spinopelvic adaptations in the standing and sitting positions in patients with adult spinal deformity (ASD). Methods Ninety-five patients with ASD and 32 controls completed health-related quality of…
. 2022 Aug 9;14(8):e27804. doi: 10.7759/cureus.27804. eCollection 2022 Aug. Glenn A Gonzalez 1 , Daniel Franco 1 , Guilherme Porto 1 , Christopher Elia 1 , Ellina Hattar 1 , Kevin Hines 1 , Aria Mahtabfar …
Objective: To compare patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), satisfaction, and minimum clinically important difference (MCID) achievement after minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MIS-TLIF) in patients stratified by preoperative leg pain.…
Background: The one-stage posterior approach for treating spinal infection has recently been generally accepted. However, severe vertebral body loss caused by infection remains a major challenge in posterior surgery. This…
. 2022 Sep 16;101(37):e30828. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000030828. Affiliations Expand Affiliation 1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Oita, Japan. Item in Clipboard Tetsutaro Abe et al. Medicine (Baltimore). 2022.…
Objective: This study was designed to determine whether lymphocyte to monocyte ratio (LMR) correlated with the intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) severity and the postoperative spinal fusion rate in patients with…