Spine
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Multicenter Study Clinical Trial
Balloon kyphoplasty for symptomatic vertebral body compression fractures results in rapid, significant, and sustained improvements in back pain, function, and quality of life for elderly patients.
Prospective, single-arm interventional cohort. ⋯ Elderly patients with symptomatic VCFs had rapid, significant, and sustained improvements in back pain, back function, and quality of life following balloon kyphoplasty.
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Review Case Reports
Lumbosacral nerve root anomaly associated with spondylolisthesis in an adolescent: a case report and review of the literature.
Case report. ⋯ This case emphasizes the need to consider the presence of lumbosacral nerve root anomalies in cases in which neurologic findings exceed what would be anticipated. Preoperative identification of these anomalies allows for their existence to be considered in the surgical plan.
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Review article of medical complications related to adult spinal deformity surgery. ⋯ Awareness of the presentation, treatment, and prevention of medical complications of deformity surgery may allow minimization of their occurrence and optimize treatment should they occur.
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Author experience and literature review. ⋯ As the magnitude of resection increases, the ability to correct deformity improves, but also the risk of complication increases. Therein, an understanding of potential applications and complications is helpful.
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An in vitro biomechanical study. ⋯ Anterior cervical corpectomy and SCAS, a novel method of anterior cervical spine decompression and reconstruction, was introduced. The in vitro biomechanical study showed that anterior cervical corpectomy and SCAS had sufficient immediate stability except for the lateral bending, compared with anterior cervical corpectomy and SP, in a 1-level cadaveric cervical spine model. However, an animal experimental in vivo evaluation of anterior cervical corpectomy and SCAS still has to be performed.