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Retrospective cohort study. The aim of this study was to compare clinical and radiographic outcomes of patients who underwent stand-alone lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) to those who underwent posterolateral fusion (PLF) for symptomatic adjacent segment disease (ASD). Recent studies have suggested that LLIF can successfully treat ASD; howeve...
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Retrospective cohort. Evaluate the epidemiology of surgical patients with spinal metastases, identify the complications and evaluate their neurological prognoses. The development of new oncological treatments and screening tests have increased the survival of oncologic patients, and consequently, the incidence of metastatic lesions of the spine. Re...
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Retrospective cohort study OBJECTIVES.: To report the feasibility, nuances, technical tips as well as outcomes of managing single-level grade D (extreme stenosis) and to compare the outcomes with non-extreme stenosis using the tubular retractor system. Minimally invasive decompression in extreme stenosis is a challenge due to technical difficulty, ...
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Prospective multi-center study. To evaluate the effectiveness of surgical treatment in reducing falls and fall-related neurological deterioration in a prospective cohort of patients undergoing surgery for degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM). Current evidence is limited for the effectiveness of surgical interventions for DCM in reducing the risk ...
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Prospective experimental study with on-site simulation. To compare the accuracy and efficiency of different techniques for pedicle screw instrumentation (PSI). Improving the safety and efficiency of PSI is a critical step to reduce the complication rates and the cost of scoliosis surgery. Innovative operative techniques for PSI have shown to safely...
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In vitro studies of the role of 17β-estradiol (E2) and its possible targets in intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD). To define the regulatory role of E2 in IDD and the potential mechanisms. IDD has intricate etiology that influenced by multiple risk factor. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms of occurrence and progression of IDD are not ...
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Retrospective analysis of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) OBJECTIVE.: To evaluate the performance of our convolutional neural network (CNN) in differentiating between spinal schwannoma and meningioma on MRI. We compared the performance of the CNN and that of two expert radiologists. Preoperative discrimination between spinal schwannomas and mening...
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3 patients were treated at our centre with patient-specific 3D-printed titanium prostheses for the reconstruction of structurally compromised C2 vertebrae. To describe our surgical and device design approach to these clinical scenarios and evaluate their outcomes. There are a limited but increasing number of case reports and series describing the u...
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Cohort. To evaluate peri-operative morbidity in patients undergoing minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS) of the lumbar spine while continuing the anti-platelet drug (APD) peri-operatively as compared to those not continuing these drugs and those not on these drugs. While discontinuation of anti-platelet drugs carries with it the risk of thrombos...
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Retrospective OBJECTIVE.: To evaluate the validity of Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) among patients undergoing minimally invasive lumbar interbody fusion. Few studies have evaluated the utility and concurrent validity of the PHQ-9 survey in patients undergoing spinal procedures. Patients undergoing a 1- or 2-level minimally invasive lumbar ...
