Study design: A retrospective cohort study OBJECTIVE.: To identify an association between preoperative opioid use and reoperations rates. Summary of background data: Chronic opioid use is a public health crisis…
Study design: Retrospective Study OBJECTIVE.: To elucidate an association between preoperative lumbar epidural corticosteroid injections (ESI) and infection after lumbar spine surgery. Summary of background data: ESI may provide diagnostic…
Background context: Pseudarthrosis after attempted spinal fusion is yet not sufficiently understood and presents a surgical challenge. Occult infections are sometimes observed in patients with pseudarthrosis and no inflammatory signs…
Background: Inadequate release of the posterior spinal bone elements may hinder the correction of the lumbosacral fractional curve in degenerative lumbar scoliosis, since the lumbosacral junction tends to be particularly…
. 2020 Oct 8;9(10):E2250. doi: 10.3390/cells9102250. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Department of Neurosurgery, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University, Seongnam-si 13496, Korea. 2 Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Kyungpook…
Objective: To report results of ultrasound-guided lumbar puncture for the administration of nusinersen in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) patients with complex spines. Methods: Eighteen SMA patients (5 children, 5 adolescents…
. 2020 Sep 9;12(9):e10326. doi: 10.7759/cureus.10326. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Neurological Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, USA. 2 Neurological Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. Item…
Background: To evaluate the mid-long-term outcomes of surgical management of mono-segmental lumbar and lumbosacral spinal tuberculosis (TB) in adults by one-stage posterior debridement, single-segment fixation, and titanium mesh cage interbody…
Case Reports . 2020 Oct 12;S1878-8750(20)32210-5. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.10.018. Online ahead of print. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Leo M. Davidoff Department of Neurosurgery, Albert Einstein College of medicine, Bronx, New York.…
Study design: Retrospective cohort. Purpose: This study's primary objective was to compare the clinico-radiological outcomes and incidence of perioperative complications of transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) at lower lumbar levels…