Spine
-
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
SPORT lumbar intervertebral disk herniation and back pain: does treatment, location, or morphology matter?
Diskectomy candidates with at least 6 weeks of sciatica and confirmatory imaging were enrolled in a randomized or observational cohort. ⋯ Diskectomy resulted in greater improvement in back pain than nonoperative treatment, and this difference was maintained at 2 years for all herniation locations and morphologies.
-
A retrospective review of surgical outcomes in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis. ⋯ Overweight adolescents (BMI % >or=85) had a greater thoracic kyphosis before surgery compared with their healthy weight peers. Body mass, however, did not affect the ability to achieve coronal or sagittal scoliotic deformity correction, and did not increase perioperative morbidity or mortality. These findings were either influenced by the small sample size of this cohort, or because the comorbidities responsible for increased perioperative complications in adults, had not yet developed in this adolescent population.