Neuropeptide changes in compressed spinal nerve roots.

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Retrospective cohort study. OBJECTIVE:The fusion risk score (FRS) is introduced to assess baseline risk of spine fusion surgery preoperatively. An objective method of stratifying risk allows the surgeon to control risk through tailoring intervention and explain differences in complication profile in high-...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Hartin NL,Mehbod AA,Joglekar SB,Transfeldt EE

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between July 1983 and November 1986, 29 patients with thoracolumbar burst fractures underwent a one-stage operation consisting of anterior decompression by subtotal vertebrectomy, reduction, and stabilization with the Slot-Zielke device. The mean follow-up was 3.1 years. Most patients with incomplete neurologic lesion...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Been HD

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:We first present 2 cases of spinal arteriovenous fistulae (AVFs) successfully treated with the help of intra-arterial indocyanine green (ICG) angiography. OBJECTIVE:To demonstrate the efficacy of intra-arterial ICG angiography in spinal AVFs compared with the role of intravenous ICG injection and intraope...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Horie N,So G,Debata A,Hayashi K,Morikawa M,Suyama K,Nagata I

更新日期：2012-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Twenty-five formaldehyde solution-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue blocks from vertebral biopsy specimen materials with presumptive diagnosis of tuberculous spondylitis and nonspecific vertebral osteomyelitis were studied. OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of polymerase chain reaction ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Berk RH,Yazici M,Atabey N,Ozdamar OS,Pabuccuoglu U,Alici E

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Case report of a solitary osteochondroma of the cervical spine causing myelopathy in a 66-year-old woman. OBJECTIVES:To review the relevant literature and describe a highly unusual clinical manifestation of solitary osteochondroma. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Osteochondromas are common benign bony lesions...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Ratliff J,Voorhies R

更新日期：2000-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of this article was to undertake a systematic review of the literature to determine whether IOM is able to sensitively and specifically detect intraoperative neurologic injury during spine surgery and to assess whether IOM results in improved outcomes for patients during these procedures. SUMMA...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Fehlings MG,Brodke DS,Norvell DC,Dettori JR

更新日期：2010-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Analysis of Swedish national and regional register data. OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to characterize healthcare resource utilization, productivity loss, and costs of patients with low back pain (LBP) with or without leg pain, who have been referred from primary care settings to orthopedic special...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Jonsson E,Olafsson G,Fritzell P,Hägg O,Borgström F

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:In vitro biomechanical study on 6 fresh frozen human thoracolumbar spine specimens. OBJECTIVE:Using a novel high viscosity polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) cement and vertebroplasty kit to correct the kyphosis angle of wedge compression fractures (AO/ASIF 1.2). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Vertebroplasty is t...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Rüger M,Schmoelz W

更新日期：2009-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Single-center retrospective case series. OBJECTIVE:To compare outcomes of instrumented fusion and two methods of decompression for degenerative spondylolisthesis. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:There is no consensus on the surgical indications or optimum techniques for lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis. ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Inui T,Murakami M,Nagao N,Miyazaki K,Matsuda K,Tominaga Y,Kitano M,Hasegawa H,Tominaga S

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reported herein is the unusual complication of blindness resulting from massive blood loss during a lumbar spine surgery. Amaurosis resulting from distant hemorrhage is rare and, to the authors' knowledge, has not been reported in the orthopedic literature. Although there have been several case reports in the ophthalm...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Katzman SS,Moschonas CG,Dzioba RB

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Retrospective study of patients who underwent ventral discectomy and polymethyl-methacrylate (PMMA) interbody fusion for cervical radiculopathy. OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the long-term outcome after ventral discectomy and PMMA interbody fusion and to compare it with previous data from other surgical techniqu...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Hamburger C,Festenberg FV,Uhl E

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review examines, in a condensed manner, many of the major achievements related to spinal cord injury research during the last quarter century. Most of the advances have been made within the past 10 years. They include such basic and clinical tools as evoked potentials, regional and local spinal blood flows, neuro...

journal_title：Spine

authors： de la Torre JC

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A cross-sectional study comparing normal subjects and patients with lumbar disc herniation (LDH) with sciatica. OBJECTIVE:To simultaneously measure the isokinetic muscle strength of the trunk, knees, and ankles in both groups. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Coordination between the trunk and lower extremity ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Chen LC,Kuo CW,Hsu HH,Chang ST,Ni SM,Ho CW

更新日期：2010-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A retrospective cohort study. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the 30-day recurrence rate after emergency lumbar discectomy. Secondary aims were to investigate the factors affecting the 30-day recurrence and readmission rates and clinical outcome. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Excluding cauda equine syndrome (CES) ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Reito A,Kyrölä K,Pekkanen L,Paloneva J

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The outcome of spinal cord injury depends on the extent of secondary damage produced by a series of cellular and molecular events initiated by the primary trauma. This article reviews the evidence that secondary spinal cord injury involves the apoptotic as well as necrotic death of neurons and glial cells. Also discus...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Lu J,Ashwell KW,Waite P

更新日期：2000-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Review article. OBJECTIVE:To explain why the evidence that compensation-related factors lead to worse health outcomes is not compelling, either in general, or in the specific case of whiplash. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:There is a common view that compensation-related factors lead to worse health outcome...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Spearing NM,Connelly LB

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Retrospective case review of children completing dual growing rod treatment at our institutions. Patients had a minimum of 2 years follow-up. OBJECTIVE:To identify the factors influencing dual growing rod treatment outcome followed to final fusion. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Published reports on dual gro...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Akbarnia BA,Breakwell LM,Marks DS,McCarthy RE,Thompson AG,Canale SK,Kostial PN,Tambe A,Asher MA,Growing Spine Study Group.

更新日期：2008-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the long-term effects of lower lumbar fusion, 94 subjects were catalogued from medical records. They had a lumbar arthrodesis at the third lumbar level or below and their operations were performed before 1964. Twenty-four were not located and 8 were deceased. Sixty-two subjects (72% of available sample) c...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Lehmann TR,Spratt KF,Tozzi JE,Weinstein JN,Reinarz SJ,el-Khoury GY,Colby H

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:The mRNA expressions of cytokines and chemokines were assessed in herniated lumbar disc specimens. OBJECTIVES:To investigate whether the mRNAs of interleukin (IL)-1alpha, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha, RANTES, IL-8, IL-10, and transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta are expressed in surgically obtained ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Ahn SH,Cho YW,Ahn MW,Jang SH,Sohn YK,Kim HS

更新日期：2002-05-01 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:The histology of lumbar intertransverse process spinal fusion was studied in an experimental model in rabbits. OBJECTIVES:To qualitatively and quantitatively analyze the sequential histology of spinal fusion using a previously validated animal model. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Few previous studies have d...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Boden SD,Schimandle JH,Hutton WC,Chen MI

更新日期：1995-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A randomized controlled trial with stratified block design. OBJECTIVES:To evaluate a treatment program focusing on whether specific stabilizing exercises for patients with pelvic girdle pain after pregnancy reduce pain, improve functional status, and improve quality of life. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA. : ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Stuge B,Laerum E,Kirkesola G,Vøllestad N

更新日期：2004-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Rat posterolateral lumbar fusion model. OBJECTIVE:To compare the efficacy of freshly isolated adipose tissue-derived stromal vascular fraction (A-SVF) and bone marrow cells (BMC) cells in achieving spinal fusion in a rat model. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Adipose tissue-derived stromal cells (ASCs) offer ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Perdomo-Pantoja A,Holmes C,Cottrill E,Rindone AN,Ishida W,Taylor M,Tomberlin C,Lo SL,Grayson WL,Witham TF

更新日期：2020-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A prospective and consecutive study of surgical results obtained during serial follow-up investigations in patients who underwent surgery for central lumbar spinal stenosis. OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the result after surgical decompression for lumbar spinal stenosis, at regular intervals after surgery, and t...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Jönsson B,Annertz M,Sjöberg C,Strömqvist B

更新日期：1997-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Retrospective. OBJECTIVE:With approximately 10,000 new spinal cord injury (SCI) patients in the United States each year, predicting public health outcomes is an important public health concern. Combining all regions of the spine in SCI trials may be misleading if the lumbar and sacral regions (conus) have...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Harrop JS,Naroji S,Maltenfort MG,Ratliff JK,Tjoumakaris SI,Frank B,Anderson DG,Albert T,Vaccaro AR

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to describe the biology of spinal lengthening (vertebrodiatasis) in a juvenile goat model. A small Orthofix dynamic fixator was affixed to 5.5 mm pedicular halfpins placed bilaterally at T12, L1, L5 and L6 in six juvenile goats. Distraction was performed across vertebral endplates between ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Stefko RM,Cain JE Jr,Lauerman WC 2nd,Brann C,Platenburg RC,Pyka R

更新日期：1993-09-15 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：:The ultrastructure of ligamenta flava (LF) and interspinous ligaments (ISL) obtained from four patients who underwent surgery for vertebral fracture (control group) and five patients operated for disc herniation was studied. The fine structure of LF was composed of elastic and elaunin fibers. Small diameter collagen f...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Yahia LH,Garzon S,Strykowski H,Rivard CH

更新日期：1990-04-01 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：STUDY DESIGN:Retrospective analysis. OBJECTIVE:To determine the prognostic indicators in patients with solitary plasmacytoma of bone (SPB) of the spine. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Population-level estimates for prognosis among patients with SPB of the spine are still lacking. Sociodemographic and clinical predictors ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Wang Y,Li H,Liu C,Chen C,Yan J

更新日期：2019-01-15 00:00:00