Objective: The aim of this study was to radiographically compare cage subsidence and displacement between L5-S1 lateral anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) cages secured with an anterior buttress plate and…
Background: Current spine postoperative pain control protocols consider the expected pain following spine fusion surgery to correlate with surgical extent, i.e. the greater the number of operated vertebrae, the greater…
Int J Numer Method Biomed Eng . 2022 Aug 22;e3645. doi: 10.1002/cnm.3645. Online ahead of print. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China.…
Introduction: To compare postoperative pain and discomfort between supine and lateral positions after lumbar surgery, a prospective randomized controlled study was performed. Methods: Forty-three patients with lumbar degenerative disease, treated…
Background: Pyogenic spinal infections (PSIs) are a group of uncommon but serious infectious diseases that are characterized by inflammation of the endplate-disc unit. PSIs are considered more prevalent and aggressive…
Purpose: Lumbar fusion combined with lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) and percutaneous pedicle screws (PPS) is a widely used, minimally invasive surgical treatment, but studies on incidence and risk factors…
Background: There are many studies on the impact of frailty on postoperative complications; however, there are few studies focusing on stepwise propensity score matching (PSM) to offset the influence of…
Background: Percutaneous pedicle screw (PPS) placement is a key step in several minimally invasive spinal surgery (MISS) procedures. Traditional technique for PPS makes use of C-arm fluoroscopy assistance (FA). More…
Background: Natural language processing (NLP) is a discipline of machine learning concerned with the analysis of language and text. Although NLP has been applied to various forms of clinical text,…
Background: Lumbar spondylolisthesis is reported to present with a familiar pattern, with the dysplastic type of spondylolysis being minor but more hereditary than the isthmic type. Siblings presenting during adolescence…