Dec 28, 2021

Currently, the role of spine surgeons in causing and mediating long-term prescription opioid use is debatable. A study aimed to determine whether or not prescription opioids were used after lumbar dis...

Dec 28, 2021

The failure rate of ventriculoperitoneal shunts (VPSs) for hydrocephalus in patients with achondroplasia is greater than in other hydrocephalus populations. However, the cause of hydrocephalus in this...

Dec 28, 2021

PVDO (posterior vault distraction osteogenesis) is a technique for expanding the posterior cranial fossa and increasing intracranial volume. To fully widen the posterior cerebral fossa, the authors ex...

Dec 27, 2021

Artificial disc replacement (ADR) is a therapy option that preserves motion and protects against adjacent-segment pathology (ASP). This 10-year follow-up study of 153 people who had anterior decompres...

Dec 27, 2021

Excessive stress and motion at the L5–S1 level, especially in patients with posterior instrumentation suprajacent to L5, can cause degenerative changes. The use of L5–S1 anterior lumbar interbody ...

Dec 27, 2021

For this study, scientists determined the navigational accuracy of an advanced augmented reality (AR)–based guiding system for minimally invasive neurological surgery, biopsy, and other operations. ...

Dec 27, 2021

The research aimed to look into the clinical and radiological factors linked to the rupture of a vertebral artery dissecting aneurysm (VADA) and see if the stagnation sign is a substantial risk factor...

Dec 27, 2021

The temporal, occipital, and parietal lobes are divided by the parietooccipital fissure, an anatomical landmark. The temporal lobe is the most common location for gliomas. Although the parietooccipita...

Dec 27, 2021

With the growing number of justifications for and popularity of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) for lumbar spinal fusion, a large-scale outcomes study comparing MIS, and conventional procedures is ne...

Dec 27, 2021

Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) is a syndrome characterized by profound T cell deficiency that is universally fatal in infancy unless immune reconstitution is achieved by hematopoietic stem ce...

Dec 27, 2021

Abdomen reshaping is a common plastic surgery procedure, and numerous surgical techniques have been described in the scientific literature. To standardize surgical approach, we propose our protocol th...

Dec 27, 2021

Slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE) is a common disease in pediatric orthopedics. Most research on SCFE has focused on high-risk groups or the whole population, and studies focusing on adult SCFE...

Dec 27, 2021

Post-traumatic ankle valgus deformities are relatively rare. Old post-traumatic ankle deformity compounded by abundant scar contracture tissue formation around the joint is a big challenge for orthope...

Dec 27, 2021

One of the most common causes of postoperative morbidity is postoperative surgical site infection (SSI). Healthcare-associated infection is a subject of great concern in healthcare services. The goal ...

Dec 27, 2021

Owing to the good prognosis of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC), guidelines recommend total thyroidectomy (TT) or thyroid lobectomy (TL) as surgical treatment for DTC with low to intermediate risk ...

Dec 24, 2021

Long-segment spinal fusion problems are well-known, such as proximal junctional kyphosis (PJK) and proximal junctional failure (PJF). Previous research has shown that ligament augmentation can reduce ...

Dec 24, 2021

Although adult symptomatic lumbar scoliosis (ASLS) has a significant health impact, these patients frequently have concomitant orthopedic problems that have not been assessed. Based on a retrospective...

Dec 24, 2021

For adult symptomatic thoracolumbar/lumbar scoliosis, few studies have examined fractional curve correction following lengthy fusion between transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) and anterior ...

Dec 24, 2021

Anterior body part interbody fusion (ALIF) is a good surgical modality for several lumbar chronic pathologies. However, a rare and often rumored complication is surgical lymphocele. The goals of this ...

Dec 24, 2021

Lumbar discectomy (LD) is used to treat radicular discomfort caused by a herniated disc. While most patients attain this goal, improvements in low-back pain (LBP) have been documented in various ways....