The treatments described for spinal synovial cysts range from percutaneous puncture to arthrodesis. There is a fear of postoperative instability after surgical resection of cysts mainly when they are associated…
The sacral canal is the continuation of the vertebral canal in the sacrum. The sacral canal contains spinal meninges, lumbar and sacral part of spinal nerves and filum terminale. So…
Spinal subdural hematoma (SDH) is rarely reported, and their simultaneous occurrence with intracranial SDH is even more rare. A 67-year-old male patient with a history of posterolateral fusion to treat…
Chronic lower lumbar pain has been associated with elevated bone metabolic activity in the spine. Diagnosis of bone metabolic activity is currently through integrating Positron Emission Tomography (PET) with Sodium…
Lumbar fusion surgery has grown in popularity as a solution to lower back pain. Surgical site infection (SSI) is a serious complication of spinal surgery, affecting as high as 8.5%…
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Many studies have demonstrated that discogenic low back pain is the most common type of chronic low back pain (CLBP), one of the major causes of disability,…
STUDY DESIGN: A prospective observational study with a historical reference group.OBJECTIVES: The main objectives of this study were to determine the impact of preventative multimodal analgesia (PMA) on postoperative opioid…
STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective.OBJECTIVE: To investigate the prevalence and risk factors of postsurgical foot complaints (PFCs) following spinal surgery by using a modified pain drawing (PD) instrument.SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Although…
OBJECTIVE: The Medicaid patient population and health care costs for spine surgeries among these patients have increased since 2010. Hospital length of stay (LOS) contributes appreciably to hospital costs for…
Adjacent segment disease (ASD) is one of the potential risks after lumbar spine surgery with instrumentation. Revision surgery needs to be performed on patients suffered from ASD. The traditional open…