Study design: Retrospective cohort study. Objectives: Total disc replacement (TDR) has been introduced in order to preserve segmental motion and thus reduce adjacent segment disease (ASD) as seen after spinal…
Study design: Retrospective cohort study. Objectives: Studies in the lumbar spine suggest a correlation between sarcopenia and worse patient outcomes. The purpose of this study was to determine whether paraspinal…
Study design: Retrospective cohort study. Objectives: Decompression without fusion is a standard surgical treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) with reasonable surgical outcomes. Nevertheless, some studies have reported low patient…
Study design: Retrospective cohort study. Objective: Screw loosening in spinal fusion is poorly defined. Accordingly, its prevalence rates range from 1% to 60%, and its risk factors remain undefined. The…
Study design: Retrospective cohort study of prospective patients undergoing minimally invasive lumbar fusion at a single academic institution. Objective: To assess differences in perioperative outcomes between primary and revision MIS…
Study design: Prospective cohort study. Objective: The lateral transpsoas access is a retroperitoneal approach for the lumbar spine to perform the lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF), an intersomatic arthrodesis performed…
Background: Meticulous disc space preparation is an important step toward ensuring arthrodesis in the interbody fusion procedure. Although minimally invasive techniques are becoming increasingly advanced in lumbar interbody fusion, concerns…
Background context: A potential correlation between surgery for symptomatic adjacent segment degeneration (sASD) and the development of degenerative disease of the lumbar spine or osteoarthritis of the musculoskeletal joints remains…
Objective: To assess the clinical effect of oblique lumbar interbody fusion (OLIF) combined with posterior surgery via Wiltse approach for adult degenerative scoliosis. Methods: The clinical data of 27 patients…
Purpose: To compare the surgical outcomes between ankylosing spondylitis (AS)-related thoracolumbar kyphosis patients with the lowest instrumented vertebra (LIV) at S1 or above following one-level pedicle subtraction osteotomy (PSO). Methods:…