Spine
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Prospective multicenter nonrandomized institutional review board-approved observational study of clinical and radiographic outcomes of the extreme lateral interbody fusion (XLIF) procedure in adult scoliosis. ⋯ The morbidity in adult scoliosis surgery is minimized with less invasive techniques. The rate of major complications in this study (12.1%) compares favorably to that reported from other studies of surgery for degenerative deformity.
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Review
Minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion: a review of techniques and outcomes.
Review of published literature. ⋯ More studies designed to provide class I or II data will be needed in the future to further solidify the favorable results observed so far with the MIS TLIF procedure.
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This is a case series studying the efficacy of concomitant inhalational anesthesia and transcranial electrical motor-evoked potential (tceMEP) monitoring in spinal deformity surgery. ⋯ Although isoflurane and nitrous oxide diminish tceMEP responses, reliable monitoring can still be accomplished while using significant levels of inhalational anesthetic agents.