… Junichi Nakamura received his BS and MS in electronics engineering from Tokyo Institute
of … Nakamura served as technical program chairman for the 1995, 1999, and 2005 IEEE …

Study Design. Prospective study. Objective. To examine the efficacy of teriparatide or
bisphosphonate treatment to reduce pedicle screw (PS) loosening after instrumented lumbar …

Purpose Extreme lateral interbody fusion provides minimally invasive treatment of spinal
deformity, but complications including nerve and psoas muscle injury have been noted. To …

Methods. The participants were patients who underwent OLIF surgery under the diagnosis
of degenerative lumbar diseases between April 2013 and May 2015 at 11 affiliated medical …

Background The Association Research Circulation Osseous (ARCO) presents the 2019
revised staging system of osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) based on the 1994 ARCO …

Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs) are the most common mesenchymal tumours of the
human gastrointestinal tract. Previous studies of GISTs found gain‐of‐function mutations of …

Study Design. Prospective trial. Objective. To examine the clinical efficacy of teriparatide for
bone union after instrumented lumbar posterolateral fusion using local bone grafting in …

Purpose Pain from osteoarthritis (OA) is generally classified as nociceptive (inflammatory).
Animal models of knee OA have shown that sensory nerve fibers innervating the knee are …

An energy conversion efficiency of 25.1% was achieved in heterojunction back contact (HBC)
structure Si solar cell utilizing back contact technology and an amorphous silicon thinfilm …

Purpose Surgery for lumbar spinal degeneration disease is widely performed. While posterior
decompression and fusion are popular, anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) is also …