Background: Given the increased attention to functional improvement in spine surgery as it relates to motion preservation, activities of daily living, and cost, it is critical to fully understand the…
doi: 10.2176/jns-nmc.2021-0395. Online ahead of print. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Department of Neurosurgery and Spine Surgery, Iseikai Hospital. 2 Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine. 3 Department…
Background: There remains a paucity of literature on the impact of overlap on neurosurgical patient outcomes. The purpose of the present study was to correlate increasing duration of surgical overlap…
Objective: To analyze the relationship between post-operative proximal junctional kyphosis (PJK) and C2-femoral heads center (C2-FH), pelvic fixation in adult spinal deformity (ASD) patients, so as to provide a reference…
Background: Postoperative fever is a common feature of spinal surgery. When fever occurs postoperatively in patients, surgeons are eager to rule out an infection. There are many reports about postoperative…
Objective: Reimbursement trends for common procedures have persistently declined over the past 2 decades. Spinal instrumentational and fusion procedures are increasingly utilized and have increased in clinical complexity, yet longitudinal…
Purpose: Over the past decade, alternative patient positions for the treatment of the anterior lumbar spine have been explored in an effort to maximize the benefits of direct anterior column…
Purpose: To compare the operative implications between adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients (10-18 years) and young adult idiopathic scoliosis (YAdIS) patients (19-30 years). Methods: This was a retrospective study querying the…
Introduction: The many cases of far-out syndrome that have been reported have involved extraforaminal stenosis at L5-S1. We report two cases of extremely rare extraforaminal stenosis at L2-L3. Case report…
Introduction: Hypoplasia of the anterior portion of the vertebral body is a relatively rare subtype of juvenile vertebral deformity. The common manifestations of this type of deformity are scoliosis and…