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Treatment of the Fractional Curve of Adult Scoliosis With Circumferential Minimally Invasive Surgery Versus Traditional, Open Surgery: An Analysis of Surgical Outcomes. [PDF]

, 2018
Study Design:Retrospective, multicenter review of adult scoliosis patients with minimum 2-year follow-up. Objective:Because the fractional curve (FC) of adult scoliosis can cause radiculopathy, we evaluated patients treated with either circumferential ...
Anand, Neel, Chou, Dean, Deviren, Vedat, Eastlack, Robert, Fessler, Richard, Fu, Kai-Ming, International Spine Study Group, Kanter, Adam, La Marca, Frank, Mummaneni, Praveen, Mundis, Gregory, Nguyen, Stacie, Nunley, Pierce, Okonkwo, David, Park, Paul, Than, Khoi, Uribe, Juan, Wang, Michael, Zavatsky, Joseph   +18 more
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Current Strategies in Prevention of Postoperative Infections in Spine Surgery. [PDF]

, 2020
Study Design: Narrative review. Objectives: Postoperative surgical site infections (SSIs) are among the most common acute complications in spine surgery and have a devastating impact on outcomes. They can lead to increased morbidity and mortality as well
Atesok, Kivanc, Gokaslan, Ziya L, Heffernan, Michael J, Papavassiliou, Efstathios, Pittman, Jason, Rajaram, Sakthivel, Sitnikov, Irina, Tanaka, Nobuhiro, Theiss, Steven, Tunmire, Danny, Vaccaro, Alexander   +10 more
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Diffusion Tensor Imaging Correlates with Short-Term Myelopathy Outcome in Patients with Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy [PDF]

, 2017
Objective To determine if spinal cord diffusion tensor imaging indexes correlate with short-term clinical outcome in patients undergoing elective cervical spine surgery for cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM).
Eckardt, Gerald, Jirjis, Michael B., Kurpad, Shekar N., Rao, Avinash, Schmit, Brian D., Vedantam, Aditya, Wang, Marjorie C.   +6 more
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Minimally invasive spine surgery [PDF]

Neurosurgical Focus, 2008
INCE its inception, minimally invasive spine surgery has been a field in evolution. The modernization of tools and techniques for minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has recently enabled spine surgeons to expand patient selection and candidacy to include a growing array of spinal disorders such as degenerative disc disease and herniation, fractures ...
Adam S, Kanter, Praveen V, Mummaneni
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Implant Prophylaxis: The Next Best Practice Toward Asepsis in Spine Surgery. [PDF]

, 2018
Study designA literature review.ObjectivesAn evaluation of the contaminants prevalent on implants used for surgery and the aseptic methods being employed against them.MethodsPubMed was searched for articles published between 2000 and 2017 for studies ...
Agarwal, Aakash, Agarwal, Anand, Anand, Neel, Garfin, Steve R, Goel, Vijay K, Schultz, Christian, Wang, Jeffrey C   +6 more
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Quantitative analysis of paraspinal muscle atrophy after oblique lateral interbody fusion alone vs. combined with percutaneous pedicle screw fixation in patients with spondylolisthesis

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2020
Background There is no available literature for comparison on muscle atrophy between the “stand-alone” oblique lateral interbody fusion (OLIF) and regular OLIF (i.e., combined with percutaneous pedicle screws fixation (PPSF) in patients with ...
Wei He, Da He, Yuqing Sun, Yonggang Xing, Mingming Liu, Jiankun Wen, Weiheng Wang, Yanhai Xi, Wei Tian, Xiaojian Ye   +9 more
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Radiomics in Spine Surgery

International Journal of Spine Surgery, 2023
Radiomics is an emerging approach to analyze clinical images with the purpose of revealing quantitative features that are unvisible to the naked eye. Radiomic features can be further combined with clinical data and genomic information to formulate prediction models using machine learning algorithms or manual statistical analysis.
Daniel, Alsoof, Christopher L, McDonald, Wesley M, Durand, Bassel G, Diebo, Eren O, Kuris, Alan H, Daniels   +5 more
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Thin presentation of knots and lens spaces

, 2003
This paper concerns thin presentations of knots K in closed 3-manifolds M^3 which produce S^3 by Dehn surgery, for some slope gamma. If M does not have a lens space as a connected summand, we first prove that all such thin presentations, with respect to ...
A Deruelle, Bailey, Cerf, D Matignon, Domergue, Gabai, Gordon, Gordon, Heath, Ichihara, Luecke, Matignon, Matveev, Moser, Neuwirth, Rolfsen, Teragaito, Thompson, Wallace   +18 more
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p53 inhibits CTR1-mediated cisplatin absorption by suppressing SP1 nuclear translocation in osteosarcoma

Frontiers in Oncology, 2023
BackgroundOsteosarcoma (OS) is a malignant bone tumor mainly affecting children and young adolescents. Cisplatin is a first-line chemotherapy drug for OS, however, drug resistance severely limits the survival of OS.
Lei Yong, Lei Yong, Yan Shi, Hai-Long Wu, Qi-Yuan Dong, Jing Guo, Li-Sheng Hu, Wen-Hao Wang, Zhi-Ping Guan, Bin-Sheng Yu   +9 more
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Quality in Spine Surgery [PDF]

Neurosurgery, 2018
Abstract Health care is expensive in the United States. There is an increasing focus on value rather than volume. Accurately measuring quality is a critically important step in determining value of care delivered. This article discusses the trials and techniques of measuring quality in spine surgery.
Christopher, Graves, Scott, Meyer, John, Knightly, Steven, Glassman   +3 more
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