Predictors of bad and good outcome of lumbar spine surgery. A prospective clinical study with 2 years' follow up.

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Analysis of positional magnetic resonance images of normal volunteers. OBJECTIVE:To compare the reliability and precision of an active shape model to that of conventional lordosis measurements. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Characterization of lumbar lordosis commonly relies on measurement of angles; these ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Meakin JR,Gregory JS,Smith FW,Gilbert FJ,Aspden RM

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:This is a report of a prospective case series. OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to determine whether evoked potential activity recorded from occipital scalp electrodes in humans is similar to that recorded in animals, and to evaluate the independence of this activity from the classical somatosensor...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Hurlbert RJ,Fehlings MG,Moncada MS

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A pre- and postintervention randomized, controlled trial was conducted. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effect of progressive resistance exercise training using a variable-angle Roman chair on the development of lumbar extensor endurance and strength. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Progressive resistance exercise ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Verna JL,Mayer JM,Mooney V,Pierra EA,Robertson VL,Graves JE

更新日期：2002-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:An economic evaluation was conducted alongside a randomized controlled trial. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Little is known about the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral treatment options for patients following lumbar disc surgery. If the knowledge available was supported by an economic evaluation, the inf...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Ostelo RW,Goossens ME,de Vet HC,van den Brandt PA

更新日期：2004-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Retrospective matched cohort. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the factors that may affect the decision-making process of adult deformity patients. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Adult deformity is a significant cause of morbidity in the elderly population. Despite high complication rates a significant number of pat...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Pekmezci M,Berven SH,Hu SS,Deviren V

更新日期：2009-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical practice guidelines and protocols are a seductive way of trying to improve the standard of clinical practice. If these are to be most effective, they must evaluate rigorously the evidence supporting a particular management strategy and make appropriate recommendations based on this information. This process n...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Steven ID,Fraser RD

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:This study analyzed the correlation between the atlantoaxial instability (especially sagittal plane rotatory instability) and myelopathy. Thirty-four patients with os odontoideum were reviewed in clinical symptoms and radiographs. OBJECTIVES:The results were correlated to provide a rationale for the genes...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Watanabe M,Toyama Y,Fujimura Y

更新日期：1996-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:This case report illustrates the need to be aware of extraspinal causes of sciatica. A patient with a strangulated sciatic hernia showed the clinical features of sciatic leg pain, intestinal obstruction, and a left gluteal abscess. OBJECTIVE:To highlight the need to examine the course of the sciatic nerve...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Servant CT

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Observational and comparative study of the vertebral artery injury detected by 2-dimensional (2-D) time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) for admitting patients. Construct a strike-induced flexion injury model of cervical spine with blunt vertebral artery injury in dogs. OBJECTIVES:To evaluat...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Ren X,Wang W,Zhang X,Pu Y,Wang M,Jiang T

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Lumbar spine kinematic response to a 1.0 body weight compressive load was measured in vivo by comparison of relaxed and loaded magnetic resonance image sets in the sagittal plane. OBJECTIVES:To identify and measure acute response mechanisms of the lumbar spine during compression loading. SUMMARY OF BACKG...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Wisleder D,Smith MB,Mosher TJ,Zatsiorsky V

更新日期：2001-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:This study compared preoperative and postoperative saggittal curves and spinal balance in patients undergoing spinal fusion with Cotrel-Dubousset instrumentation for severe kyphosis secondary to Scheuermann's disease. Also determined was patient satisfaction regarding relief of pain and correction of the d...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Lowe TG,Kasten MD

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:To record prospectively combined motor- and somatosensory-evoked potentials in children during scoliosis surgery using Cotrel-Dubousset instrumentation, without using special anesthetic or muscle relaxant regimens. OBJECTIVE:To determine the outcome of scoliosis surgery guided by a new technique of monito...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Stephen JP,Sullivan MR,Hicks RG,Burke DJ,Woodforth IJ,Crawford MR

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastatic bone disease in 322 patients was analyzed to assess the frequency and behavior of disseminated carcinoma to the vertebral column. Breast, lung, and prostate neoplasms were the most frequent tumors of origin in the 55% of patients who had vertebral lesions. The lumbar spine was the site of the greatest numbe...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Schaberg J,Gainor BJ

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A prospective assessment, performed using the Health Status Questionnaire, of the outcomes for 28 patients with cervical radiculopathy treated with one- or two-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. OBJECTIVE:To assess patient outcome using the Health Status Questionnaire after one- or two-level a...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Klein GR,Vaccaro AR,Albert TJ

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Systematic review. OBJECTIVE:To perform an evidence-based synthesis of the literature assessing the cost-effectiveness of surgery for patients with symptomatic cervical degenerative disc disease (DDD). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Cervical DDD is a common cause of clinical syndromes such as neck pain, cerv...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Alvin MD,Qureshi S,Klineberg E,Riew KD,Fischer DJ,Norvell DC,Mroz TE

更新日期：2014-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A case report of Trichosporon asahii spondylodiscitis. OBJECTIVE:To report the first case of T. asahii spondylodiscitis that developed in a healthy woman at the site of an open lumbar discectomy. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Trichosporon is a genus of basidiomycetous yeasts that is common in nature and a m...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Kim KW,Ha KY,Kim MS,Choi SM,Lee JS

更新日期：2008-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Technical note. OBJECTIVE:To describe a technique for performing percutaneous vertebroplasty of C1 for treatment of osteolytic metastatic disease involving the lateral portions of the atlas in which precautions are taken to protect the vertebrobasilar arterial supply and a posterior access route is used f...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Wetzel SG,Martin JB,Somon T,Wilhelm K,Rufenacht DA

更新日期：2002-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Two cases of lymphangiomatosis of the spine are presented. OBJECTIVES:To report two cases of lymphangiomatosis of the spine requiring surgical intervention and to review the literature. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND INFORMATION:Lymphangiomatosis is a rare childhood disease characterized by abnormal lymph tissue ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Watkins RG 4th,Reynolds RA,McComb JG,Tolo VT

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cadaveric study was done to investigate the variability of interfacet distances from C3 to C7, to learn pedicle morphology at C7-T2, and to determine potential dangers of plate-screw osteosynthesis technique of the cervical spine. Twenty-two cadavers were dissected from C2 to C7 to expose the lateral masses and nerv...

journal_title：Spine

authors： An HS,Gordin R,Renner K

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-two cases of primary neoplasms of the spine, diagnosed and treated at the University of Iowa, were reviewed in an attempt to identify features of diagnostic and prognostic importance, and to evaluate the effectiveness of surgical treatment with respect to survival. Thirty-one benign and 51 malignant tumors were...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Weinstein JN,McLain RF

更新日期：1987-11-01 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:Clinical study. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the feasibility of the transoral endoscopic odontoidectomy without occipitocervical fusion. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Endoscopic transnasal resection of the odontoid process is less invasive than the conventional transoral odontoidectomy. However, the endonasal a...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Qiuhang Z,Feng K,Bo Y,Hongchuan G,Mingchu L,Ge C,Feng L

更新日期：2013-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Anulus fibrosus (AF) cells obtained from patients undergoing surgery were cocultured with macrophage-like cells and production of inflammatory mediators was analyzed by quantitative assay. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the role of macrophages in AF cell production of inflammatory mediators by cytokines stimula...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Kim JH,Studer RK,Sowa GA,Vo NV,Kang JD

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Retrospective review of prospectively collected data. OBJECTIVE:To determine the incidence and risk factors for the development of a urinary tract infection (UTI) after a posterior lumbar fusion procedure. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:UTI after surgery is common and has important clinical consequences for ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Bohl DD,Ahn J,Tabaraee E,Ahn J,Jain A,Grauer JN,Singh K

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A national hospitalization database was used to determine rates and trends in the treatment of cervical disc disease. OBJECTIVE:To examine the temporal and geographic variations in hospitalizations and surgical procedures for cervical disc disease. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Studies of spinal surgery dur...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Angevine PD,Arons RR,McCormick PC

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Retrospective analysis. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between bony fusion after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) and heterotopic ossification (HO) after cervical disc arthroplasty (CDA) in hybrid surgery (HS). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:The mechanism of...

journal_title：Spine

authors： He J,Ding C,Liu H,Wu T,Huang K,Wang B,Hong Y,Liu Y

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:The position of a needle tip displayed on a navigation system after transpedicular introduction into a vertebral body is compared with the real position of the needle tip when using a direct navigation coupling between a three-dimensional rotational X-ray (3DRX) system and a navigation system. OBJECTIVES:...

journal_title：Spine

authors： van de Kraats EB,van Walsum T,Verlaan JJ,Voormolen MH,Mali WP,Niessen WJ

更新日期：2006-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:A roentgen stereophotogrammetric (RS) technique using metallic markers was used to determine in vivo three-dimensional (3-D) motion data in the post-operative cervical spine. Two patients were examined with RS following fusion for up to 12 months at scheduled intervals. OBJECTIVES:The study was designed t...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Lee S,Harris KG,Goel VK,Clark CR

更新日期：1994-10-15 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:Analysis of the patients with spinal missile injury (SMI). OBJECTIVE:Choosing the optimum treatment for SMI with respect to bullet trajectory, evaluation of surgical indications, and timing of surgical intervention. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:A few guidelines were reported for the management of SMI. But ...

journal_title：Spine

authors： Duz B,Cansever T,Secer HI,Kahraman S,Daneyemez MK,Gonul E

更新日期：2008-09-15 00:00:00