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Background: Presacral abscess is a common disease in the developing countries. Treatments include minimally-invasive percutaneous drainage and open surgical debridement. Percutaneous drainage under CT guidance has been recommended by the…
Background: Anterior Lumbosacral Interbody Fusion (ALIF) is a type of back surgery with the advantages of direct access to the spinal interbody space and the potential lessening morbidity related to…
Background: With the progress and success in minimally invasive surgery of transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MIS TLIF), the musculoskeletal injury was minimized. However, the role of postoperative orthosis in MIS…
Background: Paraspinal muscle is an important component to maintain spinal stability. But the relationship between the degeneration of paraspinal muscle and postoperative screw loosening in patients with adult degenerative scoliosis…
Background: Reoperation is one of the key factors affecting postoperative clinical outcomes. The reoperation rates of cervical surgeries might be different from those of lumbar surgeries due to the anatomical…
Purpose: We aimed to explore the role of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) in patients who underwent percutaneous endoscopic lumbar interbody fusion (PELIF). Patients and methods: We performed a retrospective,…
Objective: Aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy in reducing post-operative pain and opioid analgesia of a novel inter-disciplinary strategy combining pre-operative Thoraco-Lumbar Interfascial Plane (TLIP) block and…
Introduction: Malignant spinal tumors are common, continually increasing in incidence as a function of improved survival times for patients with cancer. Using predictive analytics and propensity score matching, we evaluated…
Objective: L3 is most often selected as the lowest instrumented vertebra (LIV) to conserve mobile segments in fusion surgery; however, in cases with the lowest end vertebra (LEV) at L4,…