Intervertebral Disc Displacement

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A genetically engineered thermally responsive sustained release curcumin depot to treat neuroinflammation. 
  • A magnetic resonance imaging framework for quantifying intervertebral disc deformation in vivo: Reliability and application to diurnal variations in lumbar disc shape. 
  • Analysis of factors that may influence range of motion after cervical disc arthroplasty. 
  • Anterior disc excision and interbody spinal fusion for chronic low back pain. 
  • Anterior intervertebral discectomy and arthrodesis for treatment of low back pain with or without radiculopathy. 
  • Association between serum and urine biomarkers and lumbar spine individual radiographic features: the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project. 
  • Cell mechanics and mechanobiology in the intervertebral disc. 
  • Cerebellar hemorrhage after spinal surgery: report of two cases and literature review. 
  • Clarification letter. Re: Intra- and interobserver reliability of MRI examination of intervertebral disc abnormalities in patients with cervical myelopathy. 
  • Complications, revision fusions, readmissions, and utilization over a 1-year period after bone morphogenetic protein use during primary cervical spine fusions. 
  • Contralateral radiculopathy after transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion. 
  • Degenerative disease of the lumbar spine. Role of CT-myelography in the MR era. 
  • Early-onset degeneration of the intervertebral disc and vertebral end plate in mice deficient in type IX collagen. 
  • Electromyography as a diagnostic aid in lumbo-sacral nerve root irritation. 
  • Epidural haematoma after lumbar disc surgery causing radiculopathy. 
  • Gait abnormalities and inflammatory cytokines in an autologous nucleus pulposus model of radiculopathy. 
  • General anesthesia and hyperkalemic periodic paralysis. 
  • Hyperconcavity of the lumbar vertebral endplates in the elite football lineman. 
  • Injectable biomaterials and vertebral endplate treatment for repair and regeneration of the intervertebral disc. 
  • Integrin-mediated interactions with extracellular matrix proteins for nucleus pulposus cells of the human intervertebral disc. 
  • Interleukin-17 synergizes with IFNγ or TNFα to promote inflammatory mediator release and intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) expression in human intervertebral disc cells. 
  • Intra- and inter-observer reliability of MRI examination of intervertebral disc abnormalities in patients with cervical myelopathy. 
  • Introduction: disc degeneration: summary. 
  • Lumbar disc excision in children and adolescents. 
  • Management of Cerebrospinal Fluid Leakage During Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion and Its Effect on Spinal Fusion. 
  • Medical management. 
  • Microendoscopic discectomy for recurrent disc herniations. 
  • Microendoscopic lumbar discectomy: technical note. 
  • Minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion with expandable versus static interbody devices: radiographic assessment of sagittal segmental and pelvic parameters. 
  • Neurogenic claudication with positionally dependent weakness from a thoracic disk herniation. 
  • Outcome after repeat lumbar microdiscectomy. 
  • Point of view. 
  • Predictive value of 3-month lumbar discectomy outcomes in the NeuroPoint-SD Registry. 
  • Proinflammatory cytokine expression profile in degenerated and herniated human intervertebral disc tissues. 
  • Reduction of postoperative lumbar hemilaminectomy pain with Marcaine. Technical note. 
  • Replacement of intervertebral discs in chimpanzees by silicone-dacron implants: a preliminary report. 
  • Results of lumbosacral fusion for degenerative disc disease with and without instrumentation. Two- to five-year follow-up. 
  • Return to sport after open and microdiscectomy surgery versus conservative treatment for lumbar disc herniation: a systematic review with meta-analysis. 
  • Scaffolding in tissue engineering: general approaches and tissue-specific considerations. 
  • Secondary gain influences the outcome of lumbar but not cervical disc surgery. 
  • Self-report of depressive symptoms in low back pain patients. 
  • Simple method for determining the need for sternotomy/manubriotomy with the anterior approach to the cervicothoracic junction. 
  • Small intestinal submucosa for anular defect closure: long-term response in an in vivo sheep model. 
  • T1 hyperintense disc in alkaptonuria. 
  • The Impact of Lumbar Spine Disease and Deformity on Total Hip Arthroplasty Outcomes. 
  • The effects of bone density and disc degeneration on the structural property distributions in the lower lumbar vertebral endplates. 
  • The future of spinal arthroplasty: a biomaterial perspective. 
  • The impact of coronal alignment of device on radiographic degeneration in the case of total disc replacement. 
  • The pain provocation-based straight leg raise test for diagnosis of lumbar disc herniation, lumbar radiculopathy, and/or sciatica: a systematic review of clinical utility. 
  • The posterior cervical foraminotomy in the treatment of cervical disc/osteophyte disease: a single-surgeon experience with a minimum of 5 years' clinical and radiographic follow-up. 
  • The relationship of juvenile lumbar disc disease and Scheuermann's disease. 
  • Thoracic disc disease: experience with the transpedicular approach in twenty consecutive patients. 
  • Thoracic duct injury during anterior cervical discectomy: a rare complication. Case report. 
  • Thoracic microendoscopic discectomy: a human cadaver study. 
  • Thoracolumbar deformity arthrodesis to L5 in adults: the fate of the L5-S1 disc. 
  • Three rear ends on the beach. Debating the ethics of medical advertising.