Standard open posterior decompression is well established and familiar to virtually all spine
surgeons. However, this traditional surgical treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is …

Background Studies of patients with coronary artery disease and left ventricular dysfunction
have shown that preoperative quantification of myocardial viability may be clinically useful to …

Object Total disc replacement is an alternative to lumbar fusion, but patients with spinal
stenosis, spondylolisthesis, and facet arthropathy are often excluded from this procedure …

Object Open transthoracic approaches, considered the standard in treating thoracic disc
herniation (TDH), are associated with significant comorbidities. The authors describe a …

Introduction & Background: The use of external cervical orthosis (ECO) after anterior cervical
discectomy and fusion (ACDF) varies from physician to physician due to an absence of …

OBJECTIVE. Despite the predominant use of standing flexion-extension radiography for
quantifying instability in isthmic and degenerative spondylolisthesis, other functional radio-…

Study Design. A multi-centered retrospective review from five institutions. Objective. The aim
of this study was to determine whether continuing or withholding disease-modifying …

Background. Stress perfusion imaging can assess effectively the amount of jeopardized
myocardium, but its use for identifying underperfused but viable myocardium has yielded …

Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is significantly more common than follicular thyroid
carcinoma (FTC), yet FTC has a much higher tendency to metastasize to the spinal column. We …

OBJECTIVE: Obesity has been linked to increased morbidity and mortality after some surgical
procedures. The purpose of this study was to determine whether obesity affects outcome …