There are various approach techniques for the interbody fusion of the lumbosacral region (L5-S1), and each method has its own advantages, disadvantages, and clinical features. Anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) for L5-S1 level generally …
Surgical intervention for adult spinal deformity (ASD) is considered when conservative treatments are ineffective. Severe pain and trunk imbalance caused by spinal deformity are indications for instrumented fusion, which can improve long-term …
Atlantoaxial dislocation (AAD) is one of the most common disorders in the upper cervical spine, often necessitating surgical intervention. In the recent decades, remarkable advancements have been achieved in posterior atlantoaxial fixation and …
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Zhenji Xu, Ji Wu, Fei Chen, Yiyang Ding, Bin Ni, Peng Xu, Qunfeng Guo
Both general human lifespan and that of patients with neoplastic disease increased in the last decades, together with the advancements in global health care and treatments for cancer [ 1 ]. Therefore, many surgical treatment paradigms shifted in …
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Giuseppe Di Perna, Bianca Baldassarre, Daniele Armocida, Raffaele De Marco, Alessandro Pesaresi, Serena Badellino, Marco Bozzaro, Salvatore Petrone, Lucio Buffoni, Cristina Sonetto, Emmanuele De Luca, Davide Ottaviani, Fulvio Tartara, Francesco Zenga, Marco Ajello, Nicola Marengo, Michele Lanotte, Roberto Altieri, Francesco Certo, Alessandro Pesce, Angelo Pompucci, Alessandro Frati, Umberto Ricardi, Giuseppe Maria Barbagallo, Diego Garbossa, Fabio Cofano
Surgical site infection (SSI) is one of the most common and serious complications after spinal surgery, with a rate ranging from 0.2–16.1% [ 1 – 3 ]. A SSI is associated with functional disability, prolonged hospitalization, a higher risk of …
Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS), Scheuermann’s kyphosis (SK), and Adult idiopathic/degenerative scoliosis (AdS) are the three most common spinal deformities encountered in clinical practice. While AIS is a three-dimensional spinal deformity …
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Luigi Aurelio Nasto, Seyed Hirbod Mousavi Nasab, Angelo Sieczak, Alessandro Cattolico, Paolo Ulisse, Enrico Pola
Informed consent is the foundation of shared decision making in surgery. It is defined by the patient being aware of any material risks involved in a proposed treatment [ 1 , 2 ]. Despite this, patient recall after spinal surgery consent is only …
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James Booker, Jack Penn, Kawsar Noor, Richard J. B. Dobson, Jonathan P. Funnell, Chan Hee Koh, Danyal Z. Khan, Nicola Newall, David Rowland, Siddharth Sinha, Simon C. Williams, Parag Sayal, Hani J. Marcus
The implementation of the Lenke classification has rendered corrective strategies for the management of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) a customary practice [ 1 ]. However, surgical complications of AIS continue to pose significant challenges …
The incidence of vertebral body fractures is age-dependent. Among the less than 60-year-old people only about 13/100.000 people, but the numbers increase significantly with age [ 5 ]. Among the younger patients, males are affected twice as often …
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K. Jäckle, L. Assmann, P. J. Roch, F. Klockner, M-P Meier, T. Hawellek, W. Lehmann, L. Weiser
Spondylolisthesis is the slippage of one vertebral body over the subjacent one due to several mechanisms [ 1 ]. The etiology is mostly the deficiency of facet joints in patients with degenerative spondylolisthesis (DS), and the defect of pars …
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Murat Şakir Ekşi, Uğur Ozan Öztaş, Fatma Topaloğlu, Sidar Cenk Yeşilyurt, Umut Can Duymaz, Mahmoud Osama, Emel Ece Özcan-Ekşi
Sarcopenia can be defined as progressive decline of skeletal muscle mass leading to impaired strength and function [ 1 ]. Although considered to be age-related, several factors may contribute to sarcopenia such as nutritional status, chronic …
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Henryk Haffer, Maximilian Muellner, Erika Chiapparelli, Yusuke Dodo, Gaston Camino-Willhuber, Jiaqi Zhu, Ek T. Tan, Matthias Pumberger, Jennifer Shue, Andrew A. Sama, Frank P. Cammisa, Federico P. Girardi, Alexander P. Hughes
Synovial osteochondromatosis is an extremely rare variant of extraskeletal osteochondromatosis that arises from synovial cells within the joints, bursae, and tendon sheaths [ 1 ]. Synovial osteochondromatosis is a monoarthritic disease that …
The United States Food and Drug Administration permits the clinical use of novel devices under an investigational device exemption (IDE) study [ 1 ]. In doing so, the goal is to assess the safety and efficacy of the product through a randomized …
The most common cause of low back pain is lumbar degenerative disease [ 1 ], which affects an individual’s quality of life. It causes radiating pain in the lower back; therefore, proper management to relieve the symptoms is crucial. Treatment …
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Sub-Ri Park, Young-Hyun Yoon, Nam-Hoo Kim, Ji-Won Kwon, Kyung-Soo Suk, Hak-Sun Kim, Seong-Hwan Moon, Si-Young Park, Byung Ho Lee, Jin-Oh Park
Since the 1950s, anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) has gradually developed into a classic procedure for the treatment of cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM). However, the alteration of normal biomechanics of the cervical spine by …
Vertebral column resection (VCR) was first described in 1922 by MacLennan for the treatment of severe scoliosis and has since gained in popularity as the technique has been further refined. It was defined as the resection of the dorsal elements …
First mentioned in 1793, “Mebos”, from the Japanese “umeboshi”, is a traditional South African confection consisting of brine-soaked sundried, pulped and sugared apricots [ 1 ]. Besides being high in fibre, vitamins and flavonoids, apricots are …
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Elsje-Márie Geldenhuys, Mohammed Z. Ebrahim, Ruan Grobler, Marietjie A. Stander, Janine Colling, Adriaan J. Vlok
