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....

Dec 22, 2021

Synovial facet joint cysts of the spine have been documented in several investigations as a primary lesion. Although the specific pathophysiology of those cysts is unknown, degeneration and instabilit...

Dec 22, 2021

Previous studies on the rates of adverse events (AEs) in spine surgery have been retrospective, using data from administrative databases and frequently from single sites. There have been no prospectiv...

Dec 22, 2021

The preventive treatment of the unruptured intracranial aneurysm (UIA) is to avoid the morbidity and death associated with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. There is no comparison between the conser...

Dec 22, 2021

A study assessed the safety and efficacy of acutely targeted embolization of weak angiographic sites in burst brain arteriovenous malformations (bAVMs) against delayed therapy. It looked into the angi...

Dec 21, 2021

Oncology patients are prone to frailty, described as a lack of physiological reserve and greater vulnerability to physiological stress. Given the palliative nature of spine metastasis surgery, patient...

Dec 21, 2021

The trial was conducted to see if an endoscopic transcortical intraventricular biopsy was effective and safe in children with solitary thickened pituitary stalk lesions. Between 1994 and 2018, 16 juve...

Dec 21, 2021

Antimicrobial prophylaxis (AMP) is recommended preoperatively for "clean" spinal and cranial operations, but the amount and timing are still up for debate. In the pediatric context, using multiple-dos...

Dec 21, 2021

For this study, researchers wanted to compare the clinical and surgical outcomes of patients who received contemporaneous emergency decompression and brain arteriovenous malformations (bAVM) resection...

Dec 21, 2021

Nonsaccular vertebrobasilar aneurysms (NSVBAs) are linked to a high rate of aneurysm-related death. According to anecdotal evidence, brainstem infarction may be a sign of aneurysm rupture. The researc...

Dec 20, 2021

In the United States, pediatric stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) is becoming more common, with published material mostly consisting of large single-center case series. This study uses a multicenter...

Dec 20, 2021

Unless thoroughly treated, brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) pose a risk of rupture and subsequent morbidity or mortality. AVMs in children have been reported to reappear the following oblitera...

Dec 20, 2021

Seizures can occur in children with cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), increasing morbidity and complicating clinical care. The elements that cause seizures as a presenting sign, on the othe...

Dec 20, 2021

Periventricular nodular heterotopia (PVNH) is an uncommon cause of refractory focal epilepsy caused by impaired neuronal migration from the ventricular system. This case series explains how MR-guided ...

Dec 20, 2021

Children who have suffered a concussion regularly visit emergency rooms (EDs). The changes in concussion signs, symptoms, and epidemiology dependent on patient age are little understood. The authors w...

Dec 20, 2021

Surgical antibiotic prophylaxis has been widely used for prevention of surgical site infections (SSI's). World Health Organization (WHO) global guidelines strongly recommend the administration of pre-...

Dec 20, 2021

Legitimate opioid prescriptions can increase the risk of misuse, addiction, and overdose of opioids in children and adolescents. This study aimed to describe the prescribing patterns of discharge opio...

Dec 20, 2021

Ilizarov's technology is an internationally recognized clinical treatment method for limb orthopedics, but there are many complications related to external fixation. With the development and progress ...