✓ The authors retrospectively studied 49 nonparaplegic patients who sustained acute
unstable thoracolumbar burst fractures. All patients underwent surgical treatment and were …

Object. Progressive kyphotic deformity of the lumbar or thoracolumbar spine may lead to
back pain, cosmetic deformity, and risk of neurological compromise. The authors describe a …

Study Design. A systematic review. Objective. The aim of this study was to evaluate the
clinical utility of assessing bone quality using computed tomography (CT) attenuation in …

Purpose To evaluate the associations among the validated lumbar vertebral bone quality (VBQ)
score, and cervical and thoracic VBQ scores. Methods Radiographic records of 100 …

The use of cobalt chrome (CoCr) implants in spinal surgery has become increasingly popular.
However, there have been no studies specifically comparing biofilm formation on CoCr …

BACKGROUND Jefferson's fracture, first described in 1927, represents a bursting fracture of
the C1 ring with lateral displacement of the lateral masses. It has been determined that if the …

Purpose The primary aim was to measure the safe corridor (SC), surgical incision anterior
margin (AM), and posterior margin (PM) for OLIF bilaterally from L1 to L5. The secondary aim …

Random Forest (RF) is a widely used machine learning algorithm that can be utilized for
identification of patient characteristics important for outcome prediction. Posterior cervical …

This retrospective chart review aimed to identify and report on a series of early complications
that resulted from instrumentation of the lumbar spine using the cortical bone trajectory (…

Study Design. A retrospective database study. Objective. The purpose of our study was to
compare the perioperative complications and reoperation rates after anterior cervical …