Background: When treating thoracolumbar fractures with severe cranial endplate injury but no or slight caudal endplate injury, it is debatable whether anterior fusion should be performed only for the injured…
Introduction and importance: Surgical site infection (SSI) is one of the most intractable complications following spine surgery during the early postoperative stage. Elderly (age > 70 years), body mass index…
Objective: In double and triple major adolescent idiopathic scoliosis curves it is still controversial whether the lowest instrumented vertebra (LIV) should be L3 or L4. Too short a fusion can…
Study design: Systematic review. Objectives: We sought to synthesize the literature investigating the disparities that Medicaid patients sustain with regards to 2 types of elective spine surgery, lumbar fusion (LF)…
Purposes: In this study, we aimed to analyze the clinical outcomes of percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic debridement and drainage (PTEDD) with accurate pathogen detection for patients with infectious spondylitis of the…
. 2022 May 30;14(5):e25509. doi: 10.7759/cureus.25509. eCollection 2022 May. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, JPN. 2 Department of Orthopaedics, Medical Sciences…
Background Minimally invasive lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) offers advantages over traditional approaches, providing indirect decompression of neural elements and deformity correction while avoiding many challenges and risks of anterior…
Background: Minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MIS-TLIF) is an effective surgical option for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) with spondylolisthesis. However, few studies have discussed oblique lateral interbody fusion (OLIF)…
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Objective: Oblique lumbar interbody fusion (OLIF) is a minimally invasive lumbar fusion procedure that has flourished in recent years. However, complications related to the anterior-to-psoas (ATP) approach have been reported.…