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The Impact of the 2006 Massachusetts Healthcare Reform on Spine Surgery Patient Payer-Mix and Age [PDF]
OBJECTIVE Several similarities exist between the Massachusetts health care reform law of 2006 and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The authors’ prior neurosurgical research showed a decrease in uninsured surgeries without a significant change in surgical ...
Barbaro, Nicholas M. +3 more
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Mechanical stress promotes human ligamentum flavum cells (LFCs) to synthesize multitype collagens, leading to ligamentum flavum hypertrophy (LFH). However, the mechanism of mechanical stress in the formation of collagen remains unclear.
Bin Yan +9 more
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It is an exciting time to be a spine surgeon. Indeed, it has been for the last decade. The spine surgery is probably one of the most rapidly changing surgical specialities. It comes together as the “bastard child” of orthopaedics and neurosurgery. Whilst being the offspring of two specialties has created problems, it has also brought many opportunities.
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Iatrogenic Spinal Cord Injury Resulting From Cervical Spine Surgery. [PDF]
STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study of prospectively collected data. OBJECTIVE: To examine the incidence of iatrogenic spinal cord injury following elective cervical spine surgery.
Arnold, Paul M. +15 more
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Objectives: The objective of this study is to find out the complication directly related to iliac bone graft harvest in spinesurgery. Design: Observational prospective study. Setting: Department of Orthopedic and Spine surgery, Hayatabad Medical ComplexPeshawar. Period: January 2007 to April 2012 on 139 patients.
ABDUL SATAR +4 more
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Background Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF), a commonly used procedure in spine surgery, has the advantage of a lower incidence of nerve lesions compared to the posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) technique. The intersomatic arthrodesis
Marcello Ferraro +8 more
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Epidural Hematoma Following Cervical Spine Surgery. [PDF]
STUDY DESIGN: A multicentered retrospective case series. OBJECTIVE: To determine the incidence and circumstances surrounding the development of a symptomatic postoperative epidural hematoma in the cervical spine.
Arnold, Paul M. +28 more
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Background. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) contribute to the regulation of many diseases. However, little is known about the role of circRNAs in the development of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis (GIOP).
Zhipeng Chen +7 more
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Introduction: low back pain is basic medical issue in our general population,it influence our day by day life exercises and bargains our personal satisfaction. Intervertebraldisc herniation is one of the commonest reasons for backache and sciatica. Discectomy isthe essential treatment of decision for disc herniation.
Muhammad Khalid +2 more
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Prognostic Factors for Postsurgical Recovery of Deltoid Palsy due to Cervical Disc Herniations [PDF]
Study DesignRetrospective multicenter study.PurposeWe aimed to investigate prognostic factors affecting postsurgical recovery of deltoid palsy due to cervical disc herniation (CDH).Overview of LiteratureLittle information is available about prognostic ...
Jae-Yoon Chung +12 more
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