Spine
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Multicenter Study
Patient Reported Data as Predictors of Surgical Outcome in Patients with Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy. Analysis of a National Multicenter Dataset.
Retrospective study design on prospectively collected registry data. ⋯ III.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Percutaneous Transforaminal Endoscopic Discectomy Versus Microendoscopic Discectomy for Lumbar Disc Herniation: 5-year Long-term Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.
A prospective randomized controlled study. ⋯ Over the five-year follow-up period, PTED and MED were both efficacious in the treatment of LDH. The long-term clinical outcomes and recurrent rates were comparable between the treatment groups. PTED represents a more minimally invasive technique with the advantages of rapid recovery.
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Prospective. ⋯ 3.
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Retrospective comparison. ⋯ This study attempted to further validate a previously developed MRI-based BMD scoring system against QCT-derived measurements. VBQ score was found to be a significant predictor of osteoporosis and could differentiate between healthy and osteoporotic vertebrae.