Frequency: Monthly Weekly Daily Which day? The first Sunday The first Monday The first Tuesday The first Wednesday The first Thursday The first Friday The first Saturday The first day…
Background context: Preoperative expectations influence postoperative outcomes. Patients with lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis have especially high expectations of pain relief and overall functional well-being compared to patients with lumbar stenosis. Purpose:…
Background: The long-term durability of stand-alone lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) remains unknown. Objective: To evaluate whether early patient-reported outcome measures after stand-alone LLIF are sustained on long-term follow-up. Methods:…
Study design: Multicenter retrospective study. Objective: This study reports long-term clinical and radiographic outcomes in surgically treated patients with adult symptomatic lumbar deformity (ASLD). Summary of background data: The short-term…
Study design: Prospective cohort study. Objective: To report reoperation rates after lumbar tubular microdecompression (LTM) and to compare patient-reported outcomes (PROs) six years after surgery between those who did and…
Background: Despite the known association between increased estimated blood loss (EBL) and suboptimal perioperative outcomes, the exact threshold of EBL that impacts outcomes following elective spine surgery remains unknown. In…
Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the clinical efficacy of unilateral biportal endoscopic transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (UBE-TLIF) for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). Methods: Patients who underwent…
Study design: Retrospective investigation using a prospectively collected database. Objective: To examine the appearance and characteristics of vertebral bone marrow edema (BME) in the normal healing of lumbar interbody fusion.…
Background: Given the physical and economic burden of complications in spine surgery, reducing the prevalence of perioperative adverse events is a primary concern of both patients and health care professionals.…
Objective: Both anterior and combined anterior and posterior approaches have been used to treat lumbosacral tuberculosis. However, long-term follow-up studies of each approach have not been conducted. We aimed to…