Background: Surgical site infection in the spine is a serious postoperative complication.
Factors such as posterior surgical approach, arthrodesis, use of spinal instrumentation, age, …

Background Cervical radiculopathy is defined as a syndrome of pain and/or sensorimotor
deficits due to compression of a cervical nerve root. Understanding of this disease is vital for …

Low back pain as a result of degenerative disc disease imparts a large socioeconomic impact
on the health care system. Traditional concepts for treatment of lumbar disc degeneration …

Over the past several decades, there has been an upward trend in the total number of spinal
fusion procedures worldwide. Advanced spinal fusion techniques with or without internal …

Purpose Lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) is a minimally invasive technique that has
gained growing interest in recent years. We performed a retrospective review of the medical …

Background context Lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) has become an increasingly
common minimally invasive procedure for selective degenerative deformity correction, reduction …

Background: The erbium:YAG laser (Continuum Biomedical, Dublin, Calif.) is a new
resurfacing and ablating laser that produces minimal residual thermal damage. Laser safety …

Purpose of Review Lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) is a relatively new, minimally invasive
technique for interbody fusion. The goal of this review is to provide a general overview of …

Given the basic need for opioids in the perioperative setting, we investigated associations
between opioid prescription levels and postoperative outcomes using population-based data …

Degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis is caused by mechanical factors and/or biochemical
alterations within the intervertebral disk that lead to disk space collapse, facet joint hypertrophy…