Background: Degenerative spine disease is a common cause of low back pain in people
age 65 years or older. Nonsurgical treatment is tried first, but if it is unsuccessful, surgery is …

Purpose To compare the safety and efficiency of cement-augmented pedicle screw with
traditional pedicle screw technique applied on the patients in the osteoporotic spine with …

OBJECTIVE Pedicle screw instrumentation of the osteoporotic spine carries an increased
risk of screw loosening, pullout, and fixation failure. A variety of techniques have been used …

Comparison of cement-augmented pedicle screw and conventional pedicle screw for the
treatment of lumbar degenerative patients with osteoporosis | European Journal of Orthopaedic …

Background Osteoporotic bone offers poor purchase for the instrumentation in patients with
degenerative spinal deformity (DSD), which could lead to several complications. Recently …

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to compare the clinical and radiological outcomes
between fenestrated pedicle screws augmented with cement and expandable pedicle …

OBJECT In elderly patients with severe osteoporosis, instrumented lumbar interbody fusion
may result in fixation failure or nonunion because of decreased pedicle screw pullout …

OBJECTIVES: To describe a new approach for the application of polymethylmethacrylate
augmentation of bone cement-injectable cannulated pedicle screws. METHODS: Between …

Introduction Lumbar fusion in elderly patients is increasingly common. This study
prospectively investigated the clinical and radiological outcome of osteoporotic patients> 70 …

BACKGROUND CONTEXT There are few studies of the radio-clinical outcomes of cement-
augmented cannulated pedicle screw (CPS) fixation in osteoporotic patients. PURPOSE To …