Background: Opioids are commonly prescribed for chronic pain prior to spinal surgery and research has shown an increased rate of post-operative adverse events in these patients. Objective: This study compared…
Introduction: Postoperative discal pseudocyst (PDP) is rare. Few studies have reported on the recurrence of PDPs, and there is a lack of understanding of their clinical features and treatment methods.…
Rationale: Gout in the spine and adnexa is rare in clinical practice and can also be easily misdiagnosed, we reported a patient with nerve root compression due to lumbar gout…
Objective: The nanohydroxyapatite/polyamide-66 (n-HA/PA66) cage is a novel bioactive nonmetal cage that is now used in some medical centers, while the polyetheretherketone (PEEK) cage is a typical device that has…
doi: 10.1016/j.media.2022.102683. Online ahead of print. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Penn Image Computing and Science Laboratory (PICSL), Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. Electronic address: [email protected]. 2 Department…
Purpose: Both erector spinae plane block and wound infiltration are used to improve analgesia following spinal fusion surgery. Herein, we compared the analgesic effect of bilateral erector spinae plane block…
Introduction: Stable fixation with a wide-foot-plate expandable cage and lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) cage has been reported as the ideal treatment for vertebral pseudarthrosis or deformity after an osteoporotic…
Objective: In oblique lateral interbody fusion (OLIF) surgery at the L5-S1 level (OLIF51), anatomical complexity and the possibility of vascular injury during retraction of the common iliac vein (CIV) make…
Objective: This study aimed to compare the radiological and clinical outcomes of oblique lumbar interbody fusion (OLIF) and posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) surgeries and to confirm the effects of…
Case Reports . 2022 Jun 22;18(2):418-424. doi: 10.13004/kjnt.2022.18.e35. eCollection 2022 Oct. Affiliations Expand Affiliation 1 Department of Neurosurgery, Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. Item…