Published in International Journal of Spine Surgery
Background In osteoporotic vertebral fractures (OVF) involving neurological symptoms and severe kyphosis, vertebral osteotomies are necessary but are associated with a high risk of complications. Methods We performed a retrospective study. In 14 patients (mean age, 69.3 years old) with unstable thoracolumbar fractures associated with severe kyphosi...
Published in Journal of orthopaedic trauma
To (1) demonstrate that the AO Spine Sacral Classification System can be reliably applied by general orthopaedic surgeons and subspecialists universally around the world and (2) delineate those injury subtypes that are most difficult to classify reliably to refine the classification before evaluating clinical outcomes. Agreement study. All-level tr...
Published in Global spine journal
Retrospective cohort study. This study aims to analyze outcomes and complications of patients with thoracic and lumbar fractures in the setting of ankylosing spinal disorders (ASD) treated with minimally invasive surgery (MIS). The operative logs from 2012 to 2019 from one academic, Level I trauma center were reviewed for cases of thoracic and lumb...
Published in Cureus
The soft tissues surrounding the spine play a primordial role in its stability, the most important of which are located posteriorly and are deemed the posterior ligamentous complex (PLC). Injuries to the PLC in the setting of thoracolumbar trauma are often dreaded and little attention has been given to them in the management protocols of thoracolum...
Published in Global spine journal
This review article examines the biomechanics that underly hockey-related cervical spine injuries, the preventative measures to curtail them, optimal management strategies for the injured player and return to play criteria. Hockey is a sport with one of the highest rates of cervical spine injury, but by understanding the underlying pathophysiology ...
Published in Global spine journal
Systematic Review. To systematically analyze the definitions and descriptions in literature of "Spinal Posttraumatic Deformity" (SPTD) in order to support the development of a uniform and comprehensive definition of clinically relevant SPTD. A literature search in 11 international databases was performed using "deformity" AND "posttraumatic" and it...
Published in Global spine journal
This was an ambispective clinical quality registry study. To evaluate utility of 11-variable modified Frailty Index (mFI) in predicting postoperative outcomes among patients ≥80 years undergoing spinal surgery. Consecutive patients ≥80 years who underwent spinal surgery between January 1, 2013, and June 30, 2018, were included. Primary outcome meas...
Published in SA journal of radiology
The introduction of the Subaxial Cervical Spine Injury Classification system has created the need for a holistic imaging approach that encompasses both functional (neurological) and morphological information. This study aimed to determine if there was a correlation between the blunt cervical spinal cord injury diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) fractio...
Published in Global spine journal
Retrospective cohort study. Gender appears to play in important role in surgical outcomes following acute cervical spine trauma, with current literature suggesting males have a significantly higher mortality following spine surgery. However, no well-adjusted population-based studies of gender disparities in incidence and outcomes of spine surgery f...
Published in Global spine journal
Retrospective case series. Little is known about operative management of traumatic spinal injuries (TSI) in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). In patients undergoing surgery for TSI in Tanzania, we sought to (1) determine factors involved in the operative decision-making process, specifically implant availability and surgical judgment; (2) re...
