Back impairment and disability determination. Another attempt at objective, reliable rating.

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Prospective clinical study with postoperative radiologic control of pedicle screw placement in the cervical spine. OBJECTIVES:To evaluate whether cervical pedicle screws can be placed safely in a conventional technique when using cannulated screws and separate stab incisions. Also, to evaluate if accuracy...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Richter M,Cakir B,Schmidt R

更新日期：2005-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Statewide retrospective cohort study using prospectively collected data from the Spine Care and Outcomes Assessment Program, capturing ∼75% of the state's spine fusion procedures. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to estimate the variation in patient-reported outcomes (PROs) 1 year after elective lumbar...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Khor S,Lavallee DC,Cizik AM,Bellabarba C,Dagal A,Hart RA,Howe CR,Martz RD,Shonnard N,Flum DR

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional deformities in vertebrae of patients with idiopathic scoliosis were analyzed quantitatively using three-dimensional computed tomography. To evaluate the deformities, the vertebral lordosis and scoliosis were defined clearly. An average lordosis of 7.9 degrees and an average scoliosis of 6.8 degrees w...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Kojima T,Kurokawa T

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A prospective follow-up study to detect the early neurological improvement after decompression surgery and to clarify its correlation with the late neurological outcome in patients with cervical compression myelopathy. OBJECTIVE:To reveal the suitability of a simple performance, 15-second grip-and-release...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Hosono N,Takenaka S,Mukai Y,Makino T,Sakaura H,Miwa T,Kaito T

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A case series of adults with surgical treatment for adult idiopathic thoracolumbar and/or lumbar scoliosis, low back pain, and spinal stenosis was studied. OBJECTIVE:To assess pain relief, curve correction, and complications after combined procedures consisting of decompression, spine fusion, and stabiliz...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Shapiro GS,Taira G,Boachie-Adjei O

更新日期：2003-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：METHODS:Eleven patients with paralysis, secondary to rheumatoid arthritis of the cervical spine were analyzed postmortem. Neurologic classification (Ranawat) included one Class 2, four Class IIIA, and six Class IIIB. Rheumatologic changes included atlantoaxial subluxation, basilar invagination, and subaxial subluxation...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Delamarter RB,Bohlman HH

更新日期：1994-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The authors developed and validated a measure of health outcome for patients with low back pain. RESULTS:A questionnaire was developed incorporating the type of questions asked when taking a clinical history. After testing on a sample of 568 patients, three questions were discarded from the questionnaire. Th...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Ruta DA,Garratt AM,Wardlaw D,Russell IT

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Report of surgical technique and long-term outcome; review of prospectively gathered data and follow-up survey of patient cohort. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to review surgical technique for a trephine graft harvest technique and assess perioperative complications/pain, long-term outcome, and pati...

journal_title：Spine

authors： McLain RF,Techy F

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A case report of a patient suffering from an intradural herniated disc associated with the presence of epidural gas. OBJECTIVE:To advise spine surgeons of the possible association of intradural disc herniation and epidural gas, to prevent overlooking intradural disc fragments during surgery. SUMMARY OF B...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Hidalgo-Ovejero AM,Garcia-Mata S,Izco-Cabezon T,Garralda-Galarza G,Martinez-Grande M

更新日期：1998-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A 5-year clinical follow-up assessment of a prospective randomized study of chemonucleolysis using chymopapain (4000 IU) or collagenase (400 ABC units) was performed. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Intradiscal therapy can be performed for patients with contained discs by chemonucleolysis, percutaneous discect...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Wittenberg RH,Oppel S,Rubenthaler FA,Steffen R

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A cross-sectional telephone survey was conducted using a two-stage randomization process. OBJECTIVES:The objectives of this paper were to investigate the prevalence of neck pain and their consequences and risk groups in the Hong Kong population. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:There has been a lack of recent ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Chiu TT,Leung AS

更新日期：2006-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A propensity score matching study. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to assess the cost-effectiveness of balloon kyphoplasty (BKP) in Japan. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Osteoporotic vertebral fracture (OVF) is a common disease in elderly people. In Japan, the incidence of painful OVF in 2008 was estimat...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Takahashi S,Hoshino M,Yasuda H,Terai H,Hayashi K,Tsujio T,Kono H,Suzuki A,Tamai K,Ohyama S,Toyoda H,Dohzono S,Kanematsu F,Hori Y,Nakamura H

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:The loosening rates of two monocortical pedicle screw designs (hollow and solid) were compared in a cadaveric sacrum model subjected to cyclic loading. OBJECTIVE:To determine if a hollow screw would be more resistant to loosening than a solid pedicle screw when placed into the pedicles of S1 and tested un...

journal_title：Spine

authors： McLachlin SD,Beaton BJ,Sabo MT,Gurr KR,Bailey SI,Bailey CS,Dunning CE

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Randomized prospective study using an experimental scoliosis model in a pinealectomized chicken. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effect of the side of visual impairment on the incidence and laterality of the curves on a pinealectomized chicken model. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Visual impairment has been sho...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Turhan E,Acaroglu E,Bozkurt G,Alanay A,Yazici M,Surat A

更新日期：2006-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Case-control study from a continuous series. OBJECTIVES:To study the impact of perioperative sitting radiographs in adult spinal deformity (ASD) patients and determine whether proximal junctional kyphosis (PJK) can be prevented using preoperative sitting radiograph. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Radiographi...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Yoshida G,Ushirozako H,Hasegawa T,Yamato Y,Kobayashi S,Yasuda T,Banno T,Arima H,Oe S,Mihara Y,Ide K,Watanabe Y,Yamada T,Togawa D,Matsuyama Y

更新日期：2020-08-01 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:Case report. OBJECTIVE:To report a case of false-negative intraoperative motor-evoked potentials (MEP) that developed paraplegia after surgery. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Although several false-negative results have been reported with somatosensory-evoked potentials, there is no report noted with MEP. Th...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Modi HN,Suh SW,Yang JH,Yoon JY

更新日期：2009-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Fifty-two practices in the East Midlands, United Kingdom, were included. OBJECTIVES:To test the hypothesis that referral for lumbar spine radiography is cost-effective in primary care patients with low back pain of at least 6 weeks' duration compared with usual care in which referral is not routine. SUMM...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Miller P,Kendrick D,Bentley E,Fielding K

更新日期：2002-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Meta-analysis methodology was extended to derive comparative effectiveness information on spinal manipulation for low back pain. OBJECTIVE:Determine relative effectiveness of spinal manipulation therapies (SMTs), medical management, physical therapies, and exercise for acute and chronic nonsurgical low ba...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Menke JM

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：STUDY DESIGN:Case report. OBJECTIVE:To describe a patient with nodular fasciitis arising in the lumbar extradural space. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Nodular fasciitis is a benign proliferation of fibroblasts and myofibroblasts. It commonly occurs in the subcutaneous tissue of an upper extremity, trunk, head, and neck,...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Kubota K,Okada S,Maeda T,Matsumoto Y,Sakamoto A,Harimaya K,Saiwai H,Kumamaru H,Oda Y,Iwamoto Y

更新日期：2012-01-15 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：:Four cases of patients with normal magnetic resonance (MR) studies of the lumbar spine and abnormal discography are presented to illustrate that normal lumbar disc signal intensity does not necessarily rule out disc degeneration. ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Kornberg M

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:: Johann Peter Frank (1745-1821) is generally known as one of the founders of the modern Hygiene and Public Health. It is less known his contribution in investigating the pathogenesis of spinal disorders. In his "De Vertebralis Columnae in Morbis Dignitate" (1791), Frank first proposed to use the Latin term "rhachialg...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Riva MA,Anghilieri FM,Belingheri M,Zatti G

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To perform decompression of the spinal cord and stabilization of the cervical spine in the patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy, subtotal vertebrectomy and spinal fusion of the cervical spine were carried out in 30 patients. In 18 patients, three vertebrectomies and a spinal fusion were carried out, and in 12...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Hanai K,Fujiyoshi F,Kamei K

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Human intervertebral disc cells were cultured in monolayer and treated with adenovirus-containing marker genes to determine the susceptibility of the cells to adenovirus-mediated gene transfer. OBJECTIVES:To test the efficacy of the adenovirus-mediated gene transfer technique for transferring exogenous ge...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Moon SH,Gilbertson LG,Nishida K,Knaub M,Muzzonigro T,Robbins PD,Evans CH,Kang JD

更新日期：2000-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Retrospective observational cohort study. OBJECTIVE:To determine change in pelvic incidence (PI) and loss of correction after long fusion with iliac screws, the effect of iliac screw loosening, and global alignment according to postoperative PI. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Posterior long fixation and fusi...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Oba H,Ebata S,Takahashi J,Ikegami S,Koyama K,Haro H,Kato H,Ohba T

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Clinical and imaging findings of patients diagnosed with pyogenic sacroiliitis were retrospectively analyzed. OBJECTIVES:To characterize the clinical and magnetic resonance features of patients with acute pyogenic sacroiliitis without the usually known predisposing conditions and to investigate the diagno...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Doita M,Yoshiya S,Nabeshima Y,Tanase Y,Nishida K,Miyamoto H,Watanabe Y,Kurosaka M

更新日期：2003-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:An established rabbit intertransverse process lumbar fusion model was used to evaluate osteogenic protein (OP)-1 as a potential graft substitute. OBJECTIVES:To determine whether OP-1 is effective in producing intertransverse process lumbar fusion in a rabbit model. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Autogenous i...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Grauer JN,Patel TC,Erulkar JS,Troiano NW,Panjabi MM,Friedlaender GE

更新日期：2001-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Investigation of the effects of recombinant human cathepsin L on intervertebral discs and comparison with the effects of chymopapain. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effects of cathepsin L on intervertebral discs as an agent for chemonucleolysis. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Cathepsin L is a typical cysteine protei...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Kubo S,Tajima N,Katunuma N,Fukuda K,Kuroki H

更新日期：1999-01-15 00:00:00