Spine
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A total of 200 patients with low back pain (LBP) completed an English and Marathi Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) questionnaires (100 each), visual analogue scale, and Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire. ⋯ The Marathi version of Oswestry questionnaire is reliable and valid, and shows psychometric characteristics as good as the English version. It should represent a valuable tool for use in future patient-orientated outcome studies for population with LBP in India.
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Comparative Study
Proximal junctional kyphosis results in inferior SRS pain subscores in adult deformity patients.
Retrospective comparative study. ⋯ 3.
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Multicenter Study
Predictors of treatment outcomes in geriatric patients with odontoid fractures: AOSpine North America multi-centre prospective GOF study.
Multicenter prospective cohort study. ⋯ Older age, initial nonsurgical treatment, and male sex are associated with failure of treatment in patients with geriatric odontoid fractures.
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Spine Update on prognostic scoring systems for spinal metastases in the era of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) therapies. ⋯ The assessment of the available scores in recent cohorts of patients is mandatory to test their current validity and evidence the need for aggressive surgical management. New scoring systems taking into account the gain in survival induced by recent anticancer agents will likely be warranted in a close future.
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Multicenter Study
Current practice of methylprednisolone administration for acute spinal cord injury in Germany: a national survey.
Written mail-out survey. ⋯ 3.