Patient classification, a key to evaluate pain treatment: a psychological study in chronic low back pain patients.

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Retrospective review. OBJECTIVE:To define the geographic variation in costs of anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) and posterolateral fusion (PLF). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:ACDF and lumbar PLF are common procedures that are used in the treatment of spinal pathologies. To optimize value, both...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Goz V,Rane A,Abtahi AM,Lawrence BD,Brodke DS,Spiker WR

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A case report. OBJECTIVE:The authors present a rare case of metastatic nonfunctioning neuroendocrine tumor of the pancreas presenting as thoracic spinal cord compression. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Pancreatic endocrine tumors (PETs) are a slow-growing subset of pancreatic tumors. They can be classified a...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Eads TA,Hattab EM,Rodgers RB

更新日期：2010-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Both the cadaveric and clinical examples of anomalous vertebral artery courses are described. The incidence of this anomaly in the general population and recognition, complications, and treatment options for these patients when undergoing anterior cervical decompression are discussed. OBJECTIVES:Cadaveric...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Curylo LJ,Mason HC,Bohlman HH,Yoo JU

更新日期：2000-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control study was carried out using 84 cases of employee back injuries and 168 controls (matched triplets) at Children's Hospital and Health Center, San Diego. The objective was to examine the impact of multiple individual and work-related risk factors for low-back injury from hospital employee health records. ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Ryden LA,Molgaard CA,Bobbitt S,Conway J

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Psychometric testing of the Persian Functional Rating Index (PFRI). OBJECTIVE:To determine the reliability and validity of the PFRI in Persian-speaking subjects with neck pain (NP). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:The Functional Rating Index is a self-report questionnaire that can be used for patients with ba...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Ansari NN,Feise RJ,Naghdi S,Mohseni A,Rezazadeh M

更新日期：2012-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:We performed a retrospective study of spinal roentgenograms of a large cohort of patients suffering from osteogenesis imperfecta. OBJECTIVE:To determine the prevalence of vertebral pars defects (spondylolysis) in patients with osteogenesis imperfecta. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Patients suffering from os...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Verra WC,Pruijs HJ,Beek EJ,Castelein RM

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A case is presented with clinical and radiologic follow-up assessment to evaluate the possible effectiveness of tandem interbody fusion grafting. OBJECTIVE:To design a technique for rescuing a long iliac crest bone autograft that is too short or must be shortened because of the undesirable shape some long...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Telfeian AE,Marcotte P

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A literature review and the authors' clinical experience for the indication of fusion in the degenerative lumbar and cervical spine is provided. OBJECTIVE:To establish absolute and relative criteria for the indication for fusion in the degenerative cervical and lumbar spine. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Fu...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Bambakidis NC,Feiz-Erfan I,Klopfenstein JD,Sonntag VK

更新日期：2005-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of partial chest wall resection on subsequent production of spinal deformity was studied in six pediatric patients. The following observations are made: Scoliosis secondary to chest wall resection in the pediatric age group is progressive. The degree of curvature is related to the number of ribs resected. A...

journal_title：Spine

authors： DeRosa GP

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Forty-four consecutive thoracic idiopathic adolescent curves surgically treated between 1995 and 1999 at one institution were analyzed. All were thoracic curves; there were no lumbar curves, double major curves, or triple major curves. OBJECTIVES:To study the clinical and radiographic results for these 44...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Bridwell KH,Hanson DS,Rhee JM,Lenke LG,Baldus C,Blanke K

更新日期：2002-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:In vitro cadaveric study. OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to quantify the relative biomechanical protection resulting from "saving a level" in long spinal fusions. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:"Saving levels" in spinal deformity surgery is desirable. Constructs with lowest instrumented vertebra (LI...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Auerbach JD,Lonner BS,Errico TJ,Freeman A,Goerke D,Beaubien BP

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two adult patients with craniocervical junction malformations presented with tussive symptom onset. These patients had acute onset of permanent neurologic symptoms. One patient had basilar invagination with tonsilar herniation and the second, a Type 1 Arnold-Chiari malformation with cord widening. Possible mechanisms ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Kramer LD,Locke GE,Rasmus SC

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Laboratory study. OBJECTIVE:Evaluate the effect of substance P (SP) on an intervertebral disc rat organ culture model. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Monolayer cell experiments have demonstrated that exposure intervertebral disc tissue cells to SP leads to upregulation in inflammatory cytokine expression; ho...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Koerner JD,Markova DZ,Schroeder GD,Rihn JA,Hilibrand AS,Vaccaro AR,Anderson DG,Kepler CK

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Clinical and radiologic assessment derived from a prospective multicenter data base of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) patients. OBJECTIVE:We investigated if "implant density" or the number of screws correlated with the major curve (thoracic or lumbar) correction at 2 years in patients with AIS. We ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Clements DH,Betz RR,Newton PO,Rohmiller M,Marks MC,Bastrom T

更新日期：2009-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Multicenter, prospective, consecutive clinical series. OBJECTIVE.: To report on the use and outcomes of preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in a prospective cohort study of 2206 children undergoing posterior spinal fusion and instrumentation for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. SUMMARY OF BACKGR...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Diab M,Landman Z,Lubicky J,Dormans J,Erickson M,Richards BS,members of the Spinal Deformity Study Group.

更新日期：2011-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Retrospective review of magnetic resonance imaging and discography in patients investigated for low back pain before spinal fusion. OBJECTIVE:To determine the sensitivity of magnetic resonance imaging in the detection of painful anular tears manifested by the high-intensity zone. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DA...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Saifuddin A,Braithwaite I,White J,Taylor BA,Renton P

更新日期：1998-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A new screening test and operative technique for the relief of intractable pain in the failed back syndrome has been devised and has yielded a 72% success rate on short-term follow-up (9--30 months) in 26 patients. This syndrome is thought to represent pain emanating from permanently damaged nerve roots and not from t...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Hoppenstein R

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical tests that can index bone turnover rate in the patient are increasingly being used in the study and management of osteoporosis. Markers of bone formation and resorption are reviewed here, including their molecular basis, relative strengths and weaknesses in clinical performance, and future potential. A bon...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Eyre DR

更新日期：1997-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Prospective study on predicting psychopathology in chronic occupational spinal disorders (COSDs). OBJECTIVE:To assess prevalence of specific profiles on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and their ability to predict psychopathology in a COSD cohort. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:In the ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Gatchel RJ,Mayer TG,Eddington A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:The sheep model was used to investigate the development of disc degeneration after outer anular tearing. OBJECTIVES:The authors determined whether plate fixation promotes healing of peripheral anular tears and thereby minimizes disc degeneration. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:A limited outer anular tear (si...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Moore RJ,Latham JM,Vernon-Roberts B,Fraser RD

更新日期：1994-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and validation study. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to translate, adapt cross-culturally, and validate the Kannada version of the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Low back pain is recognized as an important public health problem. ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Mohan V,G S P,Meravanigi G,N R,Yerramshetty J

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical features of many cases of low back pain is inadequately explained by anatomic abnormalities alone. A pathophysiologic mechanism that includes a combination of mechanical and biochemical factors is an alternative explanation that is accompanied by less paradox than a purely structural paradigm. A potential...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Saal JS

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Bench-top and retrospective radiographical analyses to determine apical vertebral rotation based on differential rod curvature on the postoperative lateral radiograph. OBJECTIVE:To develop a clinically relevant methodology for measuring apical vertebral rotation on postoperative lateral radiographs in pat...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Liu RW,Yaszay B,Glaser D,Bastrom TP,Newton PO

更新日期：2012-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Does infant malnutrition produce smaller adult spinal canals? Lumbar and thoracic vertebrae (n X 1073), from a prehistoric American Indian population (15-55 yrs of age), were measured for anteroposterior (AP) and transverse (TR) vertebral canal sizes, nerve root tunnel (intervertebral foramen) widths (NRT), vertebral ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Clark GA,Panjabi MM,Wetzel FT

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Multicenter, retrospective study. OBJECTIVE:To compare the outcomes of three surgical treatments for congenital spinal deformity due to a hemivertebra. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Congenital anomalies of the spine can cause significant and progressive scoliosis and kyphosis. Their management may be challe...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Yaszay B,O'Brien M,Shufflebarger HL,Betz RR,Lonner B,Shah SA,Boachie-Adjei O,Crawford A,Letko L,Harms J,Gupta MC,Sponseller PD,Abel MF,Flynn J,Macagno A,Newton PO

更新日期：2011-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:This study compared direct measurements of the distances between the vertebral arteries in the cervical spines of human cadaver specimens with data obtained from axial computed tomography images of these specimens. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the information obtained from a computed tomography scan can...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Heary RF,Albert TJ,Ludwig SC,Vaccaro AR,Wolansky LJ,Leddy TP,Schmidt RR

更新日期：1996-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:The presence or absence of rapidly centralizing, peripheralizing, or abolishing low back and radiating pain, as identified during a McKenzie mechanical lumbar assessment of patients with chronic lumbar pain, was compared prospectively with discographic pain provocation and anular competency. OBJECTIVES:To...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Donelson R,Aprill C,Medcalf R,Grant W

更新日期：1997-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Infection of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV, HIV-II) was used to study disease transmission in allograft bone. Four allograft bone processing techniques--fresh, fresh frozen, double freeze-thaw, and double freeze-thaw with chemical decontamination--were evaluated. ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Cook SD,Salkeld SL,Prewett AB

更新日期：1995-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:During the summers of 1987 and 1988, 14 cervical spine injuries sustained during bodysurfing accidents at the beaches around Ocean City, Maryland presented to our Neurotrauma service. All the patients were men, predominantly in their middle years (mean age = 40), and otherwise healthy. Likely mechanisms of injury sugg...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Cheng CL,Wolf AL,Mirvis S,Robinson WL

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:The location of pedicle screws in relation to adjacent superior segment facet joints in 106 patients after lumbar spinal fusion was assessed using computed tomography and plain radiographs. OBJECTIVES:To document the incidence of adjacent superior segment facet joint violation following transpedicular ins...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Shah RR,Mohammed S,Saifuddin A,Taylor BA

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00