Does incorrect level needle localization during anterior cervical discectomy and fusion lead to accelerated disc degeneration?

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Cross-sectional study. OBJECTIVE:The present study compared activity of deep and superficial cervical flexor muscles and craniocervical flexion range of motion during a test of craniocervical flexion between 10 patients with chronic neck pain and 10 controls. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Individuals with c...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Falla DL,Jull GA,Hodges PW

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A cross-sectional registry and imaging cohort study. OBJECTIVES:To study the association between typical symptoms and signs of central spinal stenosis and the minimum cross-sectional area (mCSA) of the cauda equina in patients subsequently undergoing surgery. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Relations between ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Ogikubo O,Forsberg L,Hansson T

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computed tomography represents one of the most remarkable short-term technical advances ever seen in medicine. Its recent extension to scanning of the lumbar spine promises to become its most significant extra-cranial application. The accusation has been made that CT scanning represents an expensive diagnostic modalit...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Burton CV

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One shortcoming of clinical practice guidelines is that generic, one-for-all guideline recommendations do not account for differences among patients' views about the desirability (or undesirability) of specific health outcomes, such as low back pain. Because differences in patients' preferences may lead to differences...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Owens DK

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Spine Update on the biopsychosocial model. OBJECTIVE:To review and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the application of the model to spine care. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:The biopsychosocial model of illness has had (and will continue to have) a significant impact on spine care. It has changed-in ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Weiner BK

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Basic animal research. OBJECTIVE:The effects of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) were assessed in a rat chronic spinal cord compression model to explore the potential of G-CSF as a pharmacological treatment for cervical spondylotic myelopathy. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:G-CSF is a hematopoie...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Yoshizumi T,Murata H,Yamamoto S,Kurokawa R,Kim P,Kawahara N

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:This cross-sectional study was carried out on 196 adults (98 men and 98 women), aged between 18 and 91 years. OBJECTIVE:To examine whether vertebral hemangiomas (VHs) are associated with other spinal pathologies, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, cancer and past trauma, to shed light on their p...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Slon V,Peled N,Abbas J,Stein D,Cohen H,Hershkovitz I

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Report of the use of one segmental artery from the left renal artery as inflow source for reconstructing a spine with recalcitrant osteomyelitis. OBJECTIVE:To describe one difficult case of spinal osteomyelitis and our reconstruction procedure. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:The use of a vascularized fibular...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Yen YH,Hsieh TS,Hou SM,Wu SJ,Chen SC,Pu CM

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A report of a case of lumbar spine duplication with the clinical appearance of adolescent scoliosis. OBJECTIVE:To increase knowledge about the pathogenesis and treatment of lumbar spinal duplication. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Although there have been other reports of lumbar spine duplication of this mag...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Goldberg BA,Erwin WD,Heggeness MH

更新日期：1998-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Systematic review, ambispective analysis of observational data. OBJECTIVE:To make recommendations as to whether or not urgent surgical decompression is ever indicated as the optimal treatment for enhancing neurologic recovery in a patient with acute central cord injury without fracture or instability. SU...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Lenehan B,Fisher CG,Vaccaro A,Fehlings M,Aarabi B,Dvorak MF

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:retrospective review. OBJECTIVE:to determine if Anterior/Posterior Combined approach spine surgery is associated with an increased risk of pulmonary embolism (PE) compared to Posterior Only approach surgery. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:combined anterior/posterior approach spine surgery is associated with ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Kim HJ,Kepler C,Cunningham M,Rawlins B,Boachie-Adjei O

更新日期：2011-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Effectiveness of a pre-employment worker fitness evaluation in a sample of grocery warehouse order selectors was studied retrospectively. Implementation of the program began in March 1990 and as of September 10, 1993, 1100 prospective employees have been tested. OBJECTIVES:Identification of prospective em...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Reimer DS,Halbrook BD,Dreyfuss PH,Tibiletti C

更新日期：1994-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:This case study is designed to report the previously unreported specific complication of acute cauda equina compression after decompression surgery for spinal stenosis. OBJECTIVES:To inform others of the possibility of such a complication; to suggest a possible mechanism for this situation, namely hourgla...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Woods DA,Wilson-MacDonald J

更新日期：1995-11-15 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：STUDY DESIGN:Analysis of spine-related patient education materials (PEMs) from subspecialty websites. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to assess the readability of spine-related PEMs and compare to readability data from 2008. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Many spine patients use the Internet for health information. S...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Eltorai AEM,Cheatham M,Naqvi SS,Marthi S,Dang V,Palumbo MA,Daniels AH

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Radiographic analysis, outcomes analysis (pain scale, Oswestry, SRS-24), and accumulation of complications. Outcomes and complications collected prospectively. Radiographic analysis performed retrospectively. OBJECTIVES:To assess the benefits and stress complications of pedicle subtraction osteotomies for...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Bridwell KH,Lewis SJ,Edwards C,Lenke LG,Iffrig TM,Berra A,Baldus C,Blanke K

更新日期：2003-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a retrospective review of 26 patients with chronic intractable pain in which dorsal column stimulation was used as a salvage procedure. On follow-up of 12 to 42.7 months, 21 of the patients had diminished narcotic usage. Seventeen patients subjectively rated their pain relief as good to excellent. Another five...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Racz GB,McCarron RF,Talboys P

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monitoring of electrophysiologic function during intrapedicular fixation of the lumbosacral spine can be useful because this fixation technique has been associated with a significant number of postoperative radicular complications. Somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) traditionally have been used to monitor neurolog...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Toleikis JR,Carlvin AO,Shapiro DE,Schafer MF

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:This was a subanalysis of an international, multicenter, open-label study. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy and safety of denosumab in a subset of patients with giant cell tumors of bone (GCTB) of the spine including the sacrum from an international, open-label, single-arm, phase...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Bukata SV,Blay JY,Rutkowski P,Skubitz K,Henshaw R,Seeger L,Dai T,Jandial D,Chawla S

更新日期：2020-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:An amalgamated review of the current state of knowledge about psychosocial factors in low back pain (LBP), as presented at the plenary session at the Fourth International Forum on LBP Research in Primary Care (March 16-18, 2000, Israel). OBJECTIVES:To outline evidence-based theories that have lead to the ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Pincus T,Vlaeyen JW,Kendall NA,Von Korff MR,Kalauokalani DA,Reis S

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Experimental animal study. OBJECTIVE.: Evaluate osteopromotive properties of a beta-tricalcium phosphate (TCP) implant with different osteogenic substances in an animal study. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Current research in spine surgery is focusing on resorbable bone implants because of the high morbidity...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Becker S,Maissen O,Ponomarev I,Stoll T,Rahn B,Wilke I

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:: A retrospective study. OBJECTIVE:: To evaluate the safety of free-hand pedicle screw placement during revision surgery at levels with a solid posterior fusion mass and/or identified pseudarthroses of the thoracic and lumbosacral spine. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:: Placement of pedicle screws into previ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Kim YW,Lenke LG,Kim YJ,Bridwell KH,Kim YB,Watanabe K,Watanabe K

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A prospective, randomized clinical study comparing beta-tricalcium phosphate (beta-TCP) with autograft bone graft with follow-up of 3 years. OBJECTIVE:To determine the efficacy of beta-TCP as a bone graft substitute combined with local autograft obtained from decompression compared with the use of autolog...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Dai LY,Jiang LS

更新日期：2008-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:The impact of various levels of mental processing and pacing (during lifting) on spine loading was monitored under laboratory conditions. OBJECTIVES:To explore how mental demands and pacing influence the biomechanical response and subsequent spine loading and, to determine whether individual characteristi...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Davis KG,Marras WS,Heaney CA,Waters TR,Gupta P

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Case-control study. OBJECTIVE:This study is to replicate the association between the promoter polymorphisms of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-3 (-1171 5A/6A rs3025058) and interleukin (IL)-6 genes (-174G/C rs1800795) and adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) in a Chinese Han population. SUMMARY OF BACKGR...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Liu Z,Tang NL,Cao XB,Liu WJ,Qiu XS,Cheng JC,Qiu Y

更新日期：2010-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A biomechanical cadaveric study in lumbar calf spine. OBJECTIVE:Evaluation of the effects of selected degrees of freedom (df) on the dynamic stabilization of the spine in terms of segmental range of motion (RoM), center of rotation (CoR), and implant loadings. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:For dorsal stabil...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Schulze M,Hartensuer R,Gehweiler D,Vordemvenne T,Raschke MJ,Trautwein F,Heuer F

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A comparative study of aggrecanases and aggrecan fragmentation profile in the human intervertebral disc at early and advanced stages of disc degeneration. OBJECTIVE:To determine differences in the content of the aggrecanases and the profile of aggrecan fragmentation in early and advanced stages of disc de...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Patel KP,Sandy JD,Akeda K,Miyamoto K,Chujo T,An HS,Masuda K

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A case-control study. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to understand the role of magnetization transfer ratio (MTR) in identifying patients with clinically significant myelopathy and disability. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:MTR is a quantitative measure that correlates with myelin loss and neural tissue...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Cloney MB,Smith ZA,Weber KA 2nd,Parrish TB

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:An in vitro biomechanical investigation to quantify the endplates resistance to compressive loads, in the thoracic and lumbar spine. Comparisons were made to determine the regional strength of the endplate, the optimal size and geometry of interbody support, and the effects of endplate removal on structura...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Lowe TG,Hashim S,Wilson LA,O'Brien MF,Smith DA,Diekmann MJ,Trommeter J

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A case report of stress fracture of bilateral lumbar posterior facet after implantation of interspinous process device is reported and the literature reviewed. OBJECTIVE.: To report the rare case of stress fracture of bilateral lumbar posterior facet after implantation of interspinous process device. SUMM...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Chung KJ,Hwang YS,Koh SH

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00