The Pennsylvania Plan. An algorithm for the management of lumbar degenerative disc disease.

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:The histologic and biomechanic characteristics of posterior lumbar fusion with varying rigidity of a novel internal fixation construct in the rabbit were analyzed. OBJECTIVES:To evaluate this rabbit model for future studies of fusion augmentation. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Previous studies in goats and ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Feighan JE,Stevenson S,Emery SE

更新日期：1995-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:MINI: Circulating microRNAs provide an insight into current disease states. Comparing patients with degenerative disc disease to healthy controls, patients with disc disease were found to have significantly downregulated levels of miR-155-5p. This marker was found to be an accurate diagnostic predictor for the presenc...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Divi SN,Markova DZ,Fang T,Guzek R,Kurd MF,Rihn JA,Hilibrand AS,Anderson DG,Vaccaro AR,Schroeder GD,Kepler CK

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Vascular buds in rabbit vertebral endplates were examined by scanning electron microscopy of corrosion casts. OBJECTIVES:To examine morphologic differences between vascular buds in two regions of the vertebral endplate (inner anular and nucleus pulposar). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Vascular buds are spec...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Oki S,Matsuda Y,Shibata T,Okumura H,Desaki J

更新日期：1996-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Positive pain responses provoked in an inclusive series of cervical discograms performed over a 12-year period were categorized by level and reviewed. OBJECTIVES:To report the prevalence of cervical pathology over an entire series of patients, to determine whether a reproducible pattern of concordant pain...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Grubb SA,Kelly CK

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Analysis of preoperative, 8-week, 1-year, and 2-year data from patients with right thoracic adolescent idiopathic scoliosis treated by posterior Universal Spine System (Stratec Medical, Oberdorf, Switzerland). OBJECTIVE:Report 2-year results and the association between back surface and radiographic assess...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Pratt RK,Webb JK,Burwell RG,Cole AA

更新日期：2001-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Camptocormia is a rare low-back disorder involving an abnormal posture of extreme forward flexion. Most reports of camptocormia were of male military recruits during World Wars I and II. The differential diagnosis of the postural deformity, the psychologic formulation of camptocormia as a conversion disorder, and the ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Rosen JC,Frymoyer JW

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A new in vivo sheep model was developed that produced disc degeneration through the injection of 5-bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) into the intervertebral disc. This process was studied using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), radiography, CT/discogram, histology, and biochemistry. OBJECTIVES:To develop a sheep m...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Zhou H,Hou S,Shang W,Wu W,Cheng Y,Mei F,Peng B

更新日期：2007-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-two adolescent patients with severe (more than 50%) slip were surgically treated. Eleven were reduced with Magerl/Dick transpedicular screw devices and fused posteriorly from L4 to S1, and 2 weeks later anteriorly L5-S1; the other 11 were fused in situ L4-S1 (6 patients) or L5-S1 (5 patients) using a circumfere...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Poussa M,Schlenzka D,Seitsalo S,Ylikoski M,Hurri H,Osterman K

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Radiographic results from a prospective, randomized, multicenter trial assessing patients who underwent lumbar total disc replacement (TDR) or circumferential arthrodesis for 1-level degenerative disc disease. OBJECTIVE:To quantify the relative segmental contribution to total lumbar range of motion (ROM) ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Auerbach JD,Jones KJ,Milby AH,Anakwenze OA,Balderston RA

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:This study analyzed computed tomographic scans, magnetic resonance images, and biopsies of the paravertebral muscles of patients with camptocormia and age-matched patients with lumbar interapophyseal osteoarthritis or lumbar vertebral stenosis. OBJECTIVES:To define the muscular lesions and clarify their n...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Laroche M,Delisle MB,Aziza R,Lagarrigue J,Mazieres B

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-hundred-and-one patients with femoral shaft fractures were identified in a 5 year period at three institutions. Seven patients (3.5%) were found to have associated thoracic or lumbar fractures of various types. All resulted from high-velocity trauma. Four (57%) of these patients had thoracic or lumbar fractures th...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Rupp RE,Ebraheim NA,Chrissos MG,Jackson WT

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Retrospective cohort study. OBJECTIVE:Compare a novel two-step algorithm for indicating a computed tomography angiography (CTA) in the setting of a cervical spine fracture with established gold standard criteria. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:As CTA permits the rapid detection of blunt cerebrovascular injur...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Fourman MS,Shaw JD,Vaudreuil NJ,Dombrowski ME,Wawrose RA,Boakye LAT,Alarcon LH,Lee JY,Donaldson WF 3rd

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:An in vivo rat-tail model was adopted to study the structural changes of degenerated intervertebral disc after different traction protocols. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effects of traction with different modes and magnitudes on disc with simulated degeneration. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Traction has be...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Lai A,Chow DH

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:In vivo animal study. OBJECTIVES:To describe a new porcine disc degeneration model, and to analyze disc remodeling and degeneration after nucleotomy with special view to the different nucleus pulposus (NP) cell types. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Thus far, predominantly smaller animals were used for disc d...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Omlor GW,Nerlich AG,Wilke HJ,Pfeiffer M,Lorenz H,Schaaf-Keim M,Bertram H,Richter W,Carstens C,Guehring T

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Present disability evaluation schedules for the low back are not scientifically based and produce very great interexaminer differences. The authors have developed a new impairment schedule based on a comprehensive review of the medical literature and the collected opinions of a large number of back specialists. Tests ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Clark WL,Haldeman S,Johnson P,Morris J,Schulenberger C,Trauner D,White A

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary amyloidosis of bone is a rare disease process. When amyloid lesions do occur in bone, they are often associated with myeloma or other plasma cell dyscrasias. Because of its rarity and its protean clinical and radiographic picture adequate biopsy tissue for histopathologic studies is essential for accurate diag...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Leeson MC,Rechtine GR,Makley JT,Carter JR

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:This is a retrospective analysis of 30 pediatric deformity surgeries. OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of neuromonitoring in comparison to postoperative computed tomography scans for pedicle screw position. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Triggered electromyography potentials i...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Duffy MF,Phillips JH,Knapp DR,Herrera-Soto JA

更新日期：2010-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Randomized, controlled trial. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate a four-session self-management group intervention for patients with pain in primary care, led by trained lay persons with back pain. The intervention was designed to reduce patient worries, encourage self-care, and reduce activity limitations. BACKGROUN...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Von Korff M,Moore JE,Lorig K,Cherkin DC,Saunders K,González VM,Laurent D,Rutter C,Comite F

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Retrospective cohort study. OBJECTIVE:To demonstrate the relationship between perioperative use of catheters and the incidence of surgical site infection (SSI) after cervical spine surgery, after adjusting for patient's age, severity of comorbidity, surgical approach, and use of instrumentation. SUMMARY ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Tamai K,Wang C,Heindel P,Paholpak P,Buser Z,Wang JC

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:The biomechanical, histopathologic, and histomorphometric characteristics of cervical disc replacement were assessed in a caprine animal model. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the biomechanical, porous ingrowth, and histopathologic characteristics of the Porous Coated Motion (PCM) Cervical Disc replacement (Cerv...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Hu N,Cunningham BW,McAfee PC,Kim SW,Sefter JC,Cappuccino A,Pimenta L

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Localized facet joint kinematics resulting from whiplash acceleration were analyzed in the dynamic domain during the time of cervical S-curvature using intact head and neck specimens and a pendulum mini-sled loading apparatus. OBJECTIVES:To determine the effects of gender, impact severity, cervical level,...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Stemper BD,Yoganandan N,Pintar FA

更新日期：2004-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Retrospective clinical study of a prospective database. OBJECTIVE:This study aims to determine whether revision spinal fusion surgery is worthwhile in patients older than 75 from a risk-benefit perspective. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:The benefits of spinal fusion in patients older than 65 is well documen...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Chang MS,Chang YH,Revella J,Crandall DG

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A histological, biological, and immunohisto-chemical study of human lumbar ligamentum flavum. OBJECTIVE:To analyze changes in the hypertrophied ligamentum flavum and clarify their etiology. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Hypertrophy of the ligamentum flavum has been considered a major contributor to the deve...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Yabe Y,Hagiwara Y,Ando A,Tsuchiya M,Minowa T,Takemura T,Honda M,Hatori K,Sonofuchi K,Kanazawa K,Koide M,Sekiguchi T,Itoi E

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A prospective questionnaire translation and validation. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to translate and cross-culturally adapt the Japanese Orthopaedic Association Cervical Myelopathy Evaluation Questionnaire (JOACMEQ) into Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) and to assess its validity, reliability, and ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Cheung PWH,Wong CKH,Lau ST,Cheung JPY

更新日期：2018-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Repeated cross-sectional analysis using national Medicare data from the Dartmouth Atlas Project. OBJECTIVE:To describe recent trends and geographic variation in population-based rates of lumbar fusion spine surgery. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Lumbar fusion rates have increased dramatically during the 198...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Weinstein JN,Lurie JD,Olson PR,Bronner KK,Fisher ES

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A subanalysis study. OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of multilevel lumbar stenosis with or without degenerative spondylolisthesis compared to single level disease on patients' baseline symptoms and clinical outcomes over time. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Previous studies ha...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Park DK,An HS,Lurie JD,Zhao W,Tosteson A,Tosteson TD,Herkowitz H,Errico T,Weinstein JN

更新日期：2010-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Automated percutaneous discectomy is a new, safe procedure for treating herniated lumbar discs still contained by the annulus or posterior longitudinal ligament. In 1985, one of the authors reported a percutaneous nucleus aspiration technique using a 2-mm aspiration probe. This small probe produced minimal tissue dama...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Davis GW,Onik G,Helms C

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Prospective cross-sectional study. OBJECTIVE:To determine the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) patients undergoing bracing, previously braced and observation only. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:HRQoL is an important treatment outcome measure for AIS. A poor HRQ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Cheung PWH,Wong CKH,Cheung JPY

更新日期：2019-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Case report and literature review. OBJECTIVE:To describe a unique case of recurrent cerebral embolisms with "bilateral" atlantoaxial rotational vertebral artery occlusion (RVAO), and review the literature on this rare entity. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:The few reports of bilateral bow hunter's stroke (BH...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Takeshima Y,Nishimura F,Park YS,Nakase H

更新日期：2014-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Prospective observational study. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the potential association between fibrinogen, bleeding, and transfusion requirements after scoliosis surgery. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Bleeding complications during and after orthopedic surgery are associated with increased morbidity and mortali...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Carling MS,Jeppsson A,Wessberg P,Henriksson A,Baghaei F,Brisby H

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00