Spine
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Validation of the transcultural adaptation of a questionnaire for measuring health-related quality of life. ⋯ The Spanish version of the SRS-22 Patient Questionnaire demonstrated adequate internal consistency for the majority of domains and excellent reproducibility. These results suggest that the process of adaptation has produced an instrument that is apparently equivalent to the original and suitable for clinical research.
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A description of a novel surgical approach to the lumbar spine and a prospective evaluation of the early surgical outcomes. ⋯ Early results show the endoscopic lateral transpsoas approach to the lumbar spine to be a safe, minimally invasive method for anterior fusion of the first through the fourth lumbar vertebrae. Although there is a risk of groin/thigh numbness or pain, and these symptoms are mostly transient. This approach allows for exposure of the lumbar spine without mobilization of the great vessels or sympathetic plexus.
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Prospective study of the sagittal plane alignment of the spine and pelvis in the normal pediatric population. ⋯ Pelvic morphology, as measured by the pelvic incidence angle, tends to increase during childhood and adolescence before stabilizing into adulthood, most likely to maintain an adequate sagittal balance in view of the physiologic and morphologic changes occurring during growth. Pelvic tilt and lumbar lordosis, two position-dependent parameters, also react by increasing with age, most likely to avoid inadequate anterior displacement of the body center of gravity. Sacral slope is achieved with the standing posture and is not further significantly influenced by age. These results are important to establish baseline values for these measurements in the pediatric population, in view of the reported association between pelvic morphology and the development of various spinal disorders such as spondylolisthesis and scoliosis.
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Measurements of the length of pediculocorporeal screw trajectory were performed on bony sacra. Outer interforaminal distances of the first sacral vertebra were measured on bony sacra and anteroposterior sacral radiographs. ⋯ In this study, we described an easy and a reliable method to determine the length of anteromedial screw by measuring outer interforaminal distance of S1 vertebra on anteroposterior radiograph of the sacrum.