Background: The factors driving the best outcomes following minimally invasive surgery (MIS) for grade 1 degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis are not clearly elucidated. Objective: To investigate the factors that drive the…
Review . 2020 Jul;51(3):423-425. doi: 10.1016/j.ocl.2020.02.006. Epub 2020 Mar 19. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee-Campbell Clinic, 1211 Union Avenue, Suite 510,…
Objective: To evaluate the outcomes of debridement fusion surgery between two surgical approaches for one- or two-level lumbar vertebral osteomyelitis (LVO): oblique retroperitoneal approach (ORA) and posterior transpedicular approach (PTA).…
Background: Surgical treatment consisting of decompression and fusion is generally known to produce good clinical results for lumbar spinal stenosis with degenerative spondylolisthesis. However, the clinical outcome of decompression alone,…
. May-Jun 2020;36(4):663-667. doi: 10.12669/pjms.36.4.1170. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Farooq Azam, Department of Neurosurgery Medical and Teaching Institute, Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan. 2 Seema Sharafat, Department of Neurosurgery Medical…
Background: An engorged venous plexus may mimic nerve compression from a herniated disk on the magnetic resonance (MR) studies as they both have similar signal intensities. During a laminectomy, if…
Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the long term effects of posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF), applied after recurrent lumbar disc herniation (rLDH), on pain relief and…
The pelvis is a group of fused bones and may be considered the first step in the linkage of the axial skeleton (bones of the head, neck, and vertebrae) to…
. 2020 May 30;S1878-8750(20)31089-5. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.05.118. Online ahead of print. Affiliations Expand Affiliation 1 Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA. Item in…
Objective: A minimum clinically important difference (MCID) has been increasingly well known in the current era of patient-centered care because it reflects a smallest change that is meaningful for patients…