Predictors of musculoskeletal pain in men: A twenty-year follow-up from examination at enlistment.

abstract：STUDY DESIGN AND OBJECTIVES:The effects of nerve root retraction in posterior discectomy on pressure, blood flow, and electrophysiologic changes of the nerve root were investigated. OBJECTIVES:This study was performed to assess the effects of nerve root retraction in posterior discectomy on pressure, blood flow, and e...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Matsui H,Kitagawa H,Kawaguchi Y,Tsuji H

更新日期：1995-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Conditioned media (CM) of cartilaginous endplates (CEPs) of intervertebral discs were analyzed in a bioassay with regard to their influence on matrix turnover and inflammatory factors on nucleus pulposus (NP) cells of the same patient. CEP tissue underwent further histological and ultrastructural analysis....

journal_title：Spine

authors： Neidlinger-Wilke C,Boldt A,Brochhausen C,Galbusera F,Carstens C,Copf F,Schultheiss M,Lazary A,Brayda-Bruno M,Ignatius A,Wilke HJ

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biomechanical evaluation of a cervical spine implant must include flexural and torsional testing if it is used for stabilizing a traumatic unstable motion segment. A cadaveric model is presented that allows flexural and torsional testing of a cervical spine motion segment, measuring the tilting angle, the translat...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Ulrich C,Woersdoerfer O,Kalff R,Claes L,Wilke HJ

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A cohort study based on the Swedish Spine Register. OBJECTIVE:To determine the relation between smoking status and disability after surgical treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Smoking and nicotine have been shown to inhibit lumbar spinal fusion and promote disc degeneration....

journal_title：Spine

authors： Sandén B,Försth P,Michaëlsson K

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Segmental spinal instability was evaluated with magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, computed tomography (CT), and conventional radiography in 33 patients who had undergone surgical spinal fusion. In 16 of the 19 patients who had a diagnosis of solid fusion, the immobilized vertebral bodies demonstrated areas of high sign...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Lang P,Chafetz N,Genant HK,Morris JM

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A test-retest design was used. OBJECTIVE:To assess interexaminer reliability of the McKenzie method for performing clinical tests and classifying patients with low back pain. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Clinical methods and tests classifying patients with nonspecific low back pain have been based mainly o...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Kilpikoski S,Airaksinen O,Kankaanpää M,Leminen P,Videman T,Alen M

更新日期：2002-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-six consecutive patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis treated by posterior spinal fusion using Harrington distraction compression instrumentation were followed for a minimum of 3 years. Initial surgical correction was satisfactory, but during the follow-up period, mean 4.4 years (3-5 years), there was a ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Dowell JK,Powell JM,Webb PJ,Morley TR

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Patients were assessed by independent research teams in six different spine centers after indication for discectomy was established. Six- and twelve-month follow-ups were performed. OBJECTIVES:Objectives of this study were to determine somatic subjective symptoms, objective signs, sociodemographic, and ps...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Junge A,Dvorak J,Ahrens S

更新日期：1995-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The paraspinal approach was described by our group in 1968. It differs from the approach described by Melvin Watkins in 1953 in that it is a longitudinal separation of the sacrospinalis group between the multifidus and longissimus, and not between the lateral border of the entire sacrospinalis group and quadratus lumb...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Wiltse LL,Spencer CW

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Assessment of activated T and B cells in a subcutaneous chamber filled with autologous nucleus pulposus using flow cytometry and immunohistochemistry. OBJECTIVES:To examine if subcutaneously placed autologous nucleus pulposus may attract activated T and B cells in an animal model. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND D...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Geiss A,Larsson K,Rydevik B,Takahashi I,Olmarker K

更新日期：2007-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:This study investigated the effect of neck muscle precontraction in aware occupants in whiplash. Head angulation relative to T1 and facet joint capsular ligament distractions were compared between aware and unaware occupants. OBJECTIVE:To quantify changes in facet joint capsular ligament distractions betw...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Stemper BD,Yoganandan N,Cusick JF,Pintar FA

更新日期：2006-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A case report. OBJECTIVE:To demonstrate 2 cases of delayed distant spinal metastasis from a thymoma with comprehensive immunohisto-chemical analysis. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Thymoma is a rare slow-growing cancer arising in the mediastinum. Thymomas usually grow invasively into surrounding structures. ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Hong B,Nakamura M,Hartmann C,Brandis A,Ganser A,Krauss JK

更新日期：2013-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Facetectomy, either unilateral or bilateral, significantly altered the capacity of cervical spine functional units to withstand increasing compression-flexion loads applied in a constant mode to different specimen configurations. Unilateral facetectomy resulted in an average 31.6 +/- 9.7 percent decrease in strength w...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Cusick JF,Yoganandan N,Pintar F,Myklebust J,Hussain H

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A prospective assessment, performed using the Health Status Questionnaire, of the outcomes for 28 patients with cervical radiculopathy treated with one- or two-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. OBJECTIVE:To assess patient outcome using the Health Status Questionnaire after one- or two-level a...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Klein GR,Vaccaro AR,Albert TJ

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:To demonstrate the existence of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in ligamentum flavum (LF) and their pathogenic role in LF hypertrophy. OBJECTIVE:To isolate and characterize LF-derived MSCs and their response to transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-β1) and trichostatin A (TSA), a histone deacetylase inhibi...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Chen YT,Wei JD,Wang JP,Lee HH,Chiang ER,Lai HC,Chen LL,Lee YT,Tsai CC,Liu CL,Hung SC

更新日期：2011-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinical trial, aimed at secondary prevention of low-back pain, was performed in 142 hospital employees reporting at least three annual episodes of this condition. Participants were randomly assigned to one of three groups: a calisthenics program (CAL) for 3 months with biweekly sessions of flexion exercises, a back...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Donchin M,Woolf O,Kaplan L,Floman Y

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty patients with myelographic shortening of a single nerve root sheath without indentation of the dural sac were studied by CT. Lateral disc herniation was diagnosed by CT in 18 patients. The myelograms of these patients were considered suspicious of disc herniation in three patients, uncertain in seven, and misin...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Johansen JG

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six chemical agents were evaluated for their efficacy in preventing epidural scar formation following laminectomy in rabbits. One agent was carboxymethylcellulose and the other five agents represented various compositions of modified carboxymethylcellulose. Four weeks after laminectomy, spines were harvested and decal...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Kitano T,Zerwekh JE,Edwards ML,Usui Y,Allen MD

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:In vitro biomechanics. OBJECTIVE:To determine if osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture (VCF) augmentation increases adjacent level load transfer. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Osteoporotic VCF subsequent to augmentation may result from disease progression or increased adjacent level load transfer, or ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Kayanja MM,Evans K,Milks R,Lieberman IH

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiographic instability seemingly enjoys the status of a well-defined clinical syndrome. The concept is widely used, and specific treatments, usually spinal fusion, are routinely performed based on the diagnosis. The minimum standards necessary to establish radiographic instability as a legitimate clinical syndrome h...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Spratt KF,Weinstein JN,Lehmann TR,Woody J,Sayre H

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A case series of idiopathic scoliosis patients treated with thoracoscopic anterior instrumentation was compared to a similar group of patients treated by open anterior instrumentation. OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the morbidity associated with thoracoscopic instrumentation compared to the open approach for thor...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Newton PO,Marks M,Faro F,Betz R,Clements D,Haher T,Lenke L,Lowe T,Merola A,Wenger D

更新日期：2003-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A case-control study. OBJECTIVE:To compare health-related quality of life and low back pain of healthy subjects with those of patients with nonidiopathic scoliosis (non-IS) and idiopathic scoliosis (IS) 21 years or more after surgery. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:There have been a very small number of repo...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Akazawa T,Minami S,Kotani T,Nemoto T,Koshi T,Takahashi K

更新日期：2012-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The histologic effects of posterior lumbar surgery and retained extradural foreign bodies on the cauda equina were investigated in rats over time. The following four groups of rats were provided: Group 1, sham operation (laminar exposure alone); Group 2, laminectomy alone; Group 3, laminectomy with retained extradural...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Yamagami T,Matsui H,Tsuji H,Ichimura K,Sano A

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A single-institution, single-surgeon retrospective review. OBJECTIVE:To assess the efficacy of posterior only approach with short instrumentation and prolonged suction drainage in managing lumbar pyogenic spondylitis. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Several methods of posterior surgical treatment for pyogenic...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Kim YM,Choi SM

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Retrospective review and prospective follow-up of 88 patients who had decompressive laminectomy with or without fusion from 1983 to 1986. OBJECTIVE:To determine the 7- to 10-year outcome of surgery for degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:There is limited information on the imp...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Katz JN,Lipson SJ,Chang LC,Levine SA,Fossel AH,Liang MH

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Evaluation of a possible correlation of clinical symptoms of chronic low back pain (LBP) patients before and after application of external spinal fixation (ESF) with three-dimensional motion patterns. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the intervertebral kinematics in chronic LBP patients correlate with pain ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Lund T,Oxland TR,Nydegger T,Schlenzka D,Laine T,Heini P

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Ten cadavers were dissected to describe the cutaneous branches of the dorsal rami nerves that should be identified and protected throughout the thoracoplasty procedure. OBJECTIVE:To identify the anatomic distribution of the cutaneous branches of the dorsal rami in the thoracic spine. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUN...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Hoernschemeyer D,Farjoodi P,Cheng J,Sponseller P

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A case of cervical myelopathy with a severe nape and upper arm pain caused by anomalous bilateral vertebral arteries is reported. OBJECTIVE:To report over six and a half years results of a microsurgical decompression for high cervical myelopathy with a severe pain of nape and upper arm resulting from spin...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Takei H,Sagae M,Chiba K,Ogino T

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Retrospective data analysis. OBJECTIVE:To identify factors affecting the atlantodental interval, the Ranawat value, and subaxial translation after rheumatoid arthritis (RA) diagnosis. In addition, factors predictive for cervical spine instability (CSI) development after RA diagnosis were examined. SUMMAR...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Han MH,Ryu JI,Kim CH,Kim JM,Cheong JH,Bak KH,Chun HJ,Yi HJ,Jun JB,Chung JW

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with adult idiopathic scoliosis who was successfully treated with posterior spinal fusion with segmental instrumentation from T3 to L4 is presented. One year after surgery fractures of both L4 pedicles developed, which were managed nonoperatively. Clinical union was achieved in 2 months and the patient was f...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Tribus CB,Bradford DS

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00