Spinal Diseases

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A clustering of epidural abscesses in chronic hemodialysis patients: risks of salvaging access catheters in cases of infection. 
  • A comparative analysis of the prevalence and characteristics of cervical malalignment in adults presenting with thoracolumbar spine deformity based on variations in treatment approach over 2 years. 
  • A survey-based study of wrong-level lumbar spine surgery: the scope of the problem and current practices in place to help avoid these errors. 
  • Actin Out: Regulation of the Synaptic Cytoskeleton. 
  • Adult Spinal Deformity Patients Recall Fewer Than 50% of the Risks Discussed in the Informed Consent Process Preoperatively and the Recall Rate Worsens Significantly in the Postoperative Period. 
  • After 9 Years of 3-Column Osteotomies, Are We Doing Better? Performance Curve Analysis of 573 Surgeries With 2-Year Follow-up. 
  • Aggressive "benign" primary spine neoplasms: osteoblastoma, aneurysmal bone cyst, and giant cell tumor. 
  • An Analysis of Public Interest in Elective Neurosurgical Procedures During the COVID-19 Pandemic Through Online Search Engine Trends. 
  • An analysis from the Quality Outcomes Database, Part 1. Disability, quality of life, and pain outcomes following lumbar spine surgery: predicting likely individual patient outcomes for shared decision-making. 
  • 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. 
  • Appropriate Use of Limited Interventions vs Extensive Surgery in the Elderly Patient With Spinal Disorders. 
  • Artificial Intelligence Based Hierarchical Clustering of Patient Types and Intervention Categories in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: Towards a New Classification Scheme that Predicts Quality and Value. 
  • Aspergillus disc space infection: case report and review of the literature. 
  • Basis for spinal manipulative therapy: a physical therapist perspective. 
  • Chief complaints and feedback from clinic satisfaction tool: Thematic analysis of a new outpatient communication tool. 
  • Classifications for adult spinal deformity and use of the Scoliosis Research Society-Schwab Adult Spinal Deformity Classification. 
  • Clinical and radiographic evaluation of the adult spinal deformity patient. 
  • Cognitive-Behavioral-Based Physical Therapy for Patients With Chronic Pain Undergoing Lumbar Spine Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Commentary: Machine Learning Applications of Surgical Imaging for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Spine Disorders: Current State of the Art. 
  • Commentary: The Phenotypes of Anxiety and Depression: Analysis of Combined Comorbidity and Treatment in Patients Undergoing Spinal Fusion. 
  • Comparison of Segmental Lordosis and Global Spinopelvic Alignment After Single-Level Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion or Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion. 
  • Comparison of patient and surgeon perceptions of adverse events after adult spinal deformity surgery. 
  • Complications and intercenter variability of three-column osteotomies for spinal deformity surgery: a retrospective review of 423 patients. 
  • Computed tomography-guided epidural patching of postoperative cerebrospinal fluid leaks. 
  • Congenital abnormalities of the thoracic and lumbar spine. 
  • Congenital thoracolumbar spine deformities. 
  • Congenitally absent C-7 pedicle presenting as a jumped locked facet. Case illustration. 
  • Consensus Treatment Plans for Chronic Nonbacterial Osteomyelitis Refractory to Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs and/or With Active Spinal Lesions. 
  • Conservative Care in Lumbar Spine Surgery Trials: A Descriptive Literature Review. 
  • Coronal realignment and reduction techniques and complication avoidance. 
  • Correlation of higher preoperative American Society of Anesthesiology grade and increased morbidity and mortality rates in patients undergoing spine surgery. 
  • Cosmetic and functional outcomes following paramedian and anterolateral retroperitoneal access in anterior lumbar spine surgery. 
  • Da Vinci Robot-assisted transoral odontoidectomy for basilar invagination. 
  • Decision making in pediatric spinal deformity. 
  • Defining a Surgical Invasiveness Threshold for Increased Risk of a Major Complication Following Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery. 
  • Degenerative Spinal Deformity. 
  • Degenerative adult onset scoliosis. 
  • Degenerative disease of the lumbar spine. Role of CT-myelography in the MR era. 
  • Development and Validation of a Multidomain Surgical Complication Classification System for Adult Spinal Deformity. 
  • Diabetes and early postoperative outcomes following lumbar fusion. 
  • Diagnostic utility of clinical tests for spinal dysfunction. 
  • Discharge destination influences risks of readmission and complications after lumbar spine surgery in severely disabled patients. 
  • Do Demographic Factors of Spine Surgeons Affect the Rate at Which Spinal Fusion Is Performed on Patients? 
  • Does bone morphogenetic protein increase the incidence of perioperative complications in spinal fusion? A comparison of 55,862 cases of spinal fusion with and without bone morphogenetic protein. 
  • Durability of Satisfactory Functional Outcomes Following Surgical Adult Spinal Deformity Correction: A 3-Year Survivorship Analysis. 
  • Early Patient-Reported Outcomes Predict 3-Year Outcomes in Operatively Treated Patients with Adult Spinal Deformity. 
  • Effect of Antifibrinolytic Therapy on Complications, Thromboembolic Events, Blood Product Utilization, and Fusion in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery. 
  • Effect of Resident and Fellow Involvement in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery. 
  • Effect of a Biopsychosocial Intervention or Postural Therapy on Disability and Health Care Spending Among Patients With Acute and Subacute Spine Pain: The SPINE CARE Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effect of fear-avoidance beliefs of physical activities on a model that predicts risk-adjusted functional status outcomes in patients treated for a lumbar spine dysfunction. 
  • Embolization of sacral tumors. 
  • Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) for Spine Surgery: A Systematic Review. 
  • Enhancing Reality: A Systematic Review of Augmented Reality in Neuronavigation and Education. 
  • Evidence supporting the use of bone morphogenetic proteins for spinal fusion surgery. 
  • Experience with intrawound vancomycin powder for spinal deformity surgery. 
  • External Validation of the Adult Spinal Deformity (ASD) Frailty Index (ASD-FI) in the Scoli-RISK-1 Patient Database. 
  • External validation of the adult spinal deformity (ASD) frailty index (ASD-FI). 
  • Extreme lateral interbody fusion approach for isolated thoracic and thoracolumbar spine diseases: initial clinical experience and early outcomes. 
  • Factors Impacting Outcomes and Health Care Utilization in Osteoporotic Patients Undergoing Lumbar Spine Fusions: A MarketScan Database Analysis. 
  • Gender disparities in clinical presentation, treatment, and outcomes in metastatic spine disease. 
  • Geographic variation in lumbar fusion for degenerative disorders: 1990 to 2000. 
  • Hematocrit as a predictor of preoperative transfusion-associated complications in spine surgery: A NSQIP study. 
  • Hip or spine surgery first?: a survey of treatment order for patients with concurrent degenerative hip and spinal disorders. 
  • How Many Steps Per Day During the Early Postoperative Period are Associated With Patient-Reported Outcomes of Disability, Pain, and Opioid Use After Lumbar Spine Surgery? 
  • How the neck affects the back: changes in regional cervical sagittal alignment correlate to HRQOL improvement in adult thoracolumbar deformity patients at 2-year follow-up. 
  • How to predict return to work after lumbar discectomy: answers from the NeuroPoint-SD registry. 
  • Iatrogenic spinal deformity. 
  • IgG4-related disease presenting as intradural extramedullary lesion: a case report and review of the literature. 
  • Iliac crest bone graft donor site pain after anterior lumbar interbody fusion: a prospective patient satisfaction outcome assessment. 
  • Impact of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease on Postoperative Complication Rates, Ambulation, and Length of Hospital Stay After Elective Spinal Fusion (≥3 Levels) in Elderly Spine Deformity Patients. 
  • Impact of Intraoperative Monitoring During Elective Complex Spinal Fusions (≥4 Levels) on 30-Day Complication and Readmission Rates: A Single-Institutional Study of 643 Adult Patients with Spinal Deformity. 
  • Impact of Intraoperative Steroids on Postoperative Infection Rates and Length of Hospital Stay: A Study of 1200 Spine Surgery Patients. 
  • Impact of New Motor Deficit on HRQOL After Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: Subanalysis From Scoli Risk 1 Prospective Study. 
  • Impact of Race on 30-Day Complication Rates After Elective Complex Spinal Fusion (≥5 Levels): A Single Institutional Study of 446 Patients. 
  • Impact of Smoking on 30-day Morbidity and Mortality in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery. 
  • Impaired haemostasis and regional anaesthesia. 
  • Implications of spinopelvic alignment for the spine surgeon. 
  • Incidence and risk factors of postoperative neurologic decline after complex adult spinal deformity surgery: results of the Scoli-RISK-1 study. 
  • Incidence of unintended durotomy in spine surgery based on 108,478 cases. 
  • Inflammatory and dysplastic lesions involving the spine. 
  • Initial Experience With Real-Time Continuous Physical Activity Monitoring in Patients Undergoing Spine Surgery. 
  • Injury to hypopharynx by a foreign body with subsequent candida osteomyelitis of the upper cervical spine. 
  • Insurance status as a mediator of clinical presentation, type of intervention, and short-term outcomes for patients with metastatic spine disease. 
  • Inter- and Intra-rater Reliability of the Hart-ISSG Proximal Junctional Failure Severity Scale. 
  • Introduction. Adult spinal deformity. 
  • Long-Segment Fusion for Adult Spinal Deformity Correction Using Low-Dose Recombinant Human Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2: A Retrospective Review of Fusion Rates. 
  • Long-term results of therapy for stage C neuroblastoma. 
  • Lower Satisfaction After Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery in Japan Than in the United States Despite Similar SRS-22 Pain and Function Scores: A Propensity-Score Matched Analysis. 
  • Lumbar facet cyst resolution following anterior interbody fusion. 
  • MR imaging of marrow changes adjacent to end plates in degenerative lumbar disk disease. 
  • MR imaging of thoracic extradural arachnoid cysts. 
  • Management of orthopaedic sequelae of congenital spinal disorders. 
  • Mastocytosis of the axial skeleton presenting as an epidural mass lesion: MR imaging appearance. 
  • Minimally Invasive Surgery for Mild-to-Moderate Adult Spinal Deformities: Impact on Intensive Care Unit and Hospital Stay. 
  • Minimally invasive guidewireless, navigated pedicle screw placement: a technical report and case series. 
  • Minimally invasive modification of the Goel-Harms atlantoaxial fusion technique: a case series and illustrative guide. 
  • Morbidity and mortality associated with spinal surgery in children: a review of the Scoliosis Research Society morbidity and mortality database. 
  • Morbidity, mortality, and health care costs for patients undergoing spine surgery following the ACGME resident duty-hour reform: Clinical article. 
  • National trends in surgical procedures for degenerative cervical spine disease: 1990-2000. 
  • Noninvasive measurement and screening techniques for spinal deformities. 
  • Occipitocervical fusion with rigid internal fixation: long-term follow-up data in 69 patients. 
  • Operative Management of Adult Spinal Deformity Results in Significant Increases in QALYs Gained Compared to Nonoperative Management: Analysis of 479 Patients With Minimum 2-Year Follow-Up. 
  • Osteocel Plus cellular allograft in anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: evaluation of clinical and radiographic outcomes from a prospective multicenter study. 
  • Osteoradionecrosis mimicking metastatic epidural spinal cord compression. 
  • Outcomes and complications following spinous process fixation: a single-center analysis of 192 cases. 
  • Outcomes of Operative and Nonoperative Treatment for Adult Spinal Deformity: A Prospective, Multicenter, Propensity-Matched Cohort Assessment With Minimum 2-Year Follow-up. 
  • Patient Satisfaction After Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery Does Not Strongly Correlate With Health-Related Quality of Life Scores, Radiographic Parameters, or Occurrence of Complications. 
  • Patients with spinal deformity over the age of 75: a retrospective analysis of operative versus non-operative management. 
  • Patterns and Impact of Electronic Health Records-Defined Depression Phenotypes in Spine Surgery. 
  • Peak Timing for Complications After Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery. 
  • Pedicle thinning at the thoracolumbar junction: a normal variant. 
  • Perioperative characteristics and complications in obese patients undergoing anterior cervical fusion surgery. 
  • Physical examination tests for screening and diagnosis of cervicogenic headache: A systematic review. 
  • Physician self-referral of lumbar spine MRI with comparative analysis of negative study rates as a marker of utilization appropriateness. 
  • Placement of percutaneous pedicle screws without imaging guidance. 
  • Plastic Surgeon Closure of Index Spinal Cases: A Single-Institution Review of 928 Cases. 
  • Pneumorrhachis, subcutaneous emphysema, pneumomediastinum, pneumopericardium, and pneumoretroperitoneum after proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis: report of a case. 
  • Postoperative infection in spine surgery: does the month matter? 
  • Postoperative management of incidental durotomy in minimally invasive lumbar spinal surgery. 
  • Postoperative pyoderma gangrenosum after spinal fusion with instrumentation: case report. 
  • Predictors of Revision Surgical Procedure Excluding Wound Complications in Adult Spinal Deformity and Impact on Patient-Reported Outcomes and Satisfaction: A Two-Year Follow-up. 
  • Preoperative Hemoglobin Level is Associated with Increased Health Care Use After Elective Spinal Fusion (≥3 Levels) in Elderly Male Patients with Spine Deformity. 
  • Progress in the understanding of the genetic etiology of vertebral segmentation disorders in humans. 
  • Prospective multicenter assessment of risk factors for rod fracture following surgery for adult spinal deformity. 
  • Pseudogout of the cervical and thoracic spine mimicking infection after lumbar fusion: case report. 
  • Psychosocial Mechanisms of Cognitive-Behavioral-Based Physical Therapy Outcomes After Spine Surgery: Preliminary Findings From Mediation Analyses. 
  • Psychosocial factors and surgical outcomes: are elderly depressed patients less satisfied with surgery? 
  • Quality Outcomes Database Spine Care Project 2012-2020: milestones achieved in a collaborative North American outcomes registry to advance value-based spine care and evolution to the American Spine Registry. 
  • Rate of instrumentation changes on postoperative and follow-up radiographs after primary complex spinal fusion (five or more levels) for adult deformity correction. 
  • Rates and causes of mortality associated with spine surgery based on 108,419 procedures: a review of the Scoliosis Research Society Morbidity and Mortality Database. 
  • Rates of new neurological deficit associated with spine surgery based on 108,419 procedures: a report of the scoliosis research society morbidity and mortality committee. 
  • Response to letter to the editor: 'Physical examination tests for screening and diagnosis of cervicogenic headache: A systematic review'. 
  • Reversal of warfarin associated coagulopathy with 4-factor prothrombin complex concentrate in traumatic brain injury and intracranial hemorrhage. 
  • Risk Factors and Independent Predictors of 30-Day Readmission for Altered Mental Status After Elective Spine Surgery for Spine Deformity: A Single-Institutional Study of 1090 Patients. 
  • Risk factors associated with short-term complications and mortality after pediatric spinal arthrodesis. 
  • Risk factors for postoperative spinal wound infections after spinal decompression and fusion surgeries. 
  • Rotational thromboelastometry-guided blood product management in major spine surgery. 
  • Sacroiliac Joint Fusion Using Robotic Navigation: Technical Note and Case Series. 
  • Safety of Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Cervical Spine in Children Performed without Neurosurgical Supervision. 
  • Sagittal cervical alignment after cervical disc arthroplasty and anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: results of a prospective, randomized, controlled trial. 
  • Sagittal spinopelvic malalignment in Parkinson disease: prevalence and associations with disease severity. 
  • Sex differences in predictors of outcome in selected physical therapy interventions for acute low back pain. 
  • Sexual Dysfunction Secondary to Lumbar Stiffness in Adult Spinal Deformity Patients Before and After Long-Segment Spinal Fusion. 
  • Should Sagittal Spinal Alignment Targets for Adult Spinal Deformity Correction Depend on Pelvic Incidence and Age? 
  • Sleep apnea and cervical spine pathology. 
  • Somatosensory-evoked potentials in the evaluation of the unstable rheumatoid cervical spine. A preliminary report. 
  • Spinal deformity surgery. 
  • Spinal deformity: a new classification derived from neutral upright spinal alignment measurements in asymptomatic juvenile, adolescent, adult, and geriatric individuals. 
  • Spine. 
  • Spinopelvic parameters in postfusion flatback deformity patients. 
  • Stiffness After Pan-Lumbar Arthrodesis for Adult Spinal Deformity Does Not Significantly Impact Patient Functional Status or Satisfaction Irrespective of Proximal Endpoint. 
  • Surgical Treatment of Patients With Dual Hip and Spinal Degenerative Disease: Effect of Surgical Sequence of Spinal Fusion and Total Hip Arthroplasty on Postoperative Complications. 
  • The Global Spine Care Initiative: World Spine Care executive summary on reducing spine-related disability in low- and middle-income communities. 
  • The Global Spine Care Initiative: care pathway for people with spine-related concerns. 
  • The Global Spine Care Initiative: classification system for spine-related concerns. 
  • The Global Spine Care Initiative: methodology, contributors, and disclosures. 
  • The Global Spine Care Initiative: model of care and implementation. 
  • The Global Spine Care Initiative: resources to implement a spine care program. 
  • The Health Impact of Symptomatic Adult Spinal Deformity: Comparison of Deformity Types to United States Population Norms and Chronic Diseases. 
  • The Impact of Alvimopan on Return of Bowel Function After Major Spine Surgery - A Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blind Study. 
  • The Impact of Instrumentation and Implant Surface Technology on Cervical and Thoracolumbar Fusion. 
  • The Impact of Resident Involvement in Elective Posterior Cervical Fusion 
  • The National Neurosurgery Quality and Outcomes Database (N2QOD): a collaborative North American outcomes registry to advance value-based spine care. 
  • The SRS-Schwab adult spinal deformity classification: assessment and clinical correlations based on a prospective operative and nonoperative cohort. 
  • The risk of risk-adjustment measures for perioperative spine infection after spinal surgery. 
  • Thoracic and lumbar spine trauma. 
  • Three-dimensional analysis of cervical spine motion: reliability of a computer assisted magnetic tracking device compared to inclinometer. 
  • Transfusion of Red Blood Cells Stored More Than 28 Days is Associated With Increased Morbidity Following Spine Surgery. 
  • Use of the microvascular free fibula transfer as a salvage reconstruction for failed anterior spine surgery due to chronic osteomyelitis. 
  • Utility of neuromonitoring during lumbar pedicle subtraction osteotomy for adult spinal deformity. 
  • Utilization of Predictive Modeling to Determine Episode of Care Costs and to Accurately Identify Catastrophic Cost Nonwarranty Outlier Patients in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: A Step Toward Bundled Payments and Risk Sharing. 
  • Venous thromboembolism in spine surgery. 
  • Vertebra plana due to an aneurysmal bone cyst of the lumbar spine. Case report and review of the literature. 
  • Vertebral Candida infections. A case report and review of the literature. 
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  • Turner, Dennis Alan, Professor of Neurosurgery, Biomedical Engineering