Objective: Fractures of the thoracolumbar spine are the most common fractures of the spinal column. This retrospective cohort study aimed to determine whether it is necessary to remove implants of…
Background: Robot-assisted spine surgery aims to improve the accuracy of screw placement. We compared the accuracy and safety between a novel robot and free hand in thoracolumbar pedicle screw placement.…
. 2022 Jul 8;2022:8273853. doi: 10.1155/2022/8273853. eCollection 2022. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Department of Orthopaedics, Tzu Chi General Hospital at Dalin and Tzu Chi University, Taiwan. 2 Department of Orthopedics,…
. 2022 Jul 15;S1015-9584(22)00974-5. doi: 10.1016/j.asjsur.2022.07.028. Online ahead of print. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Department of Orthopedics, The Affiliated Changzhou No.2 People's Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Changzhou, 213003, China;…
Purpose: To determine risk factors for proximal junctional kyphosis (PJK) in pediatric patients with scoliosis undergoing halo gravity traction (HGT) prior to posterior spinal fusion (PSF). Methods: Data from consecutive…
Background: Growth modulation through anterior vertebral body tethering (AVBT) has emerged as a fusionless option for the treatment of progressive scoliosis. When tethering the main thoracic curve, the compensatory thoracolumbar/lumbar…
doi: 10.2106/JBJS.CC.22.00051. eCollection 2022 Jul 1. Affiliations Expand Affiliation 1 Department of Orthopedic Surgery, the Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. Item in Clipboard Daigo Arimura et al. JBJS Case…
doi: 10.2106/JBJS.CC.22.00179. eCollection 2022 Jul 1. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University California Davis, Sacramento, California. 2 Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado. 3…
Study design: Retrospective Additional Analysis of a Prospective Follow-up Study. Objectives: We aimed to find out whether poor postoperative sagittal alignment increases revisions for adjacent segment disease (ASD) after lumbar…
Study design: Retrospective analysis of prospectively collected multicenter observational data. Objective: To examine the preoperative factors affecting postoperative satisfaction following posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) and microendoscopic muscle-preserving interlaminar decompression…