Dynamic stabilization versus fusion for treatment of degenerative spine conditions. [PDF]
, 2011 Study design Comparative effectiveness review.Study rationale Spinal fusion is believed to accelerate the degeneration of the vertebral segment above or below the fusion site, a condition called adjacent segment disease (ASD).
Chou, Dean +3 more
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Clinical Outcomes After Four-Level Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion. [PDF]
, 2018 Study Design: Retrospective cohort study. Objectives: Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) demonstrates reliable improvement in neurologic symptoms associated with anterior compression of the cervical spine.
Hilibrand, Alan S +6 more
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Brain and Spine, 2023 Introduction: Severe spondylosis is common and represents contraindication to achieve cervical disc arthroplasty (CDA). Research question: Is it possible to restore cervical sagittal alignment using an adequate prosthetic model and performing systematic ...
Henri-Benjamin Pouleau +3 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 +6 more
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Content Analysis of General Practitioner Requested Lumbar Spine X-ray Reports [PDF]
, 2007 Aims and Background X-rays of patients with low back pain rarely show serious pathology but frequently reveal incidental age-related changes and always expose people to radiation.
Carr, Eloise C.J., Thompson, Paul W.
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Clinical application of ceramics in anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: A review and update [PDF]
, 2017 Study Design: Narrative review. Objectives: Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) is a reliable procedure, commonly used for cervical degenerative disc disease. For interbody fusions, autograft was the gold standard for decades; however, limited
Abedi, Aidin +5 more
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Thoracic and Lumbar Vertebral Bone Mineral Density Changes in a Natural Occurring Dog Model of Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis [PDF]
, 2015 Ankylosing spinal disorders can be associated with alterations in vertebral bone mineral density (BMD). There is however controversy about vertebral BMD in patients wuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH).
A El Maghraoui +47 more
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Delayed surgical intervention in central cord syndrome with cervical stenosis [PDF]
, 2014 Study Design Review of the literature. Objective It is generally accepted that surgical treatment is necessary for central cord syndrome (CCS) with an underlying cervical stenosis.
Kim, Tae-Hwan +7 more
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Spinal Brucellosis from a Tertiary Care Hospital, South India
Online Journal of Health & Allied Sciences, 2021 Spinal brucellosis is the most common osteoarticular complication of brucellosis. It can affect any part of the spine with or without neural involvement.
Sabina Sharma +3 more
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The Effect of Head Loading on Cervical Spine in Manual Laborers [PDF]
Asian Spine Journal, 2021 Study Design A prospective case–control study. Purpose To determine the effect of axial loading on the cervical spine when weights are carried on the head.
Bharat R. Dave +4 more
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