Objective: In corrective spinal surgery for adult spinal deformity (ASD), the focus has been on achieving optimal spinopelvic alignment. However, the correction of coronal spinal alignment is equally important. The…
Objective: Recently, new patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) of the spine were designed to overcome the limitations of previous spinal PROMs and to consider the whole spine as a single kinetic…
Objective: Pelvic fixation with S2-alar-iliac (S2AI) screws is an established technique in adult deformity surgery. The authors' objective was to report the incidence and risk factors for an underreported acute…
Purpose: To assess if the preservation of preoperative kyphosis within the cephalad two motion segments of instrumented posterior spinal fusions (PSF), for idiopathic scoliosis (IS), would be associated with lower…
Objective: In various spinal surgeries, non-routine discharges have been associated with inferior outcomes. However, there exists a paucity of data regarding the relationship between non-routine discharge and quality of care…
Study design: A retrospective study. Objective: To determine in which case one level proximal to last substantially touching vertebra (LSTV-1) could be a valid lowest instrumented vertebra (LIV), in which…
Study design: Retrospective observational study. Purpose: In this study we identify risk factors, including patient demographics, sagittal parameters, and clinical examinations, affecting incomplete L5/S posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF). Overview…
Although osteoporosis has negative impacts on lumbar fusion, its effects on screw loosening in dynamic stabilization remain elusive. We aimed to correlate bone mineral density (BMD) with screw loosening in…
Study design: Retrospective observational study of a cohort of consecutive patients. Objective: The aim of this study was to compare surgical invasion, mechanical complications, and clinical and radiological outcomes 2…
Case Reports doi: 10.3892/mco.2021.2366. Epub 2021 Aug 8. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Crete, Heraklion 71500, Greece. 2 Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, '251' Hellenic…