Spine
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Retrospective review of an adult deformity database. ⋯ T10PA was used to determine functional alignment, an alignment based on PI and age-appropriate physical function. Correcting patients to functional alignment produced improvements in clinical outcomes, with the lowest rates of PJK. This patient-specific approach to spinal alignment provides adult spinal deformity correction targets that can be used intraoperatively.
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Spine MRI Identifies Clinically Relevant Findings in Patients with Cancer Presenting with Back Pain.
This is a retrospective, cross-sectional study. ⋯ Our findings suggest imaging the total spine in cancer patients with back pain given higher odds of identifying malignant pathology and instances of capturing otherwise not visualized disease. Further work is warranted to confirm these findings.
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Retrospective cohort. ⋯ This study reports 25,951 measurements of normal L1 to S1 neuroforaminal anatomy assessed by PFR, CT, and MRI. The values reported in this study may be used as normative reference measurements of the lumbar neuroforamina. PFR measurements of the neuroforamina are larger compared with those derived from CT and MRI across all levels from L1 to S1. There is a poor correlation between PFR, CT, and MRI when measuring the lumbar neuroforamina. Differences in neuroforaminal anatomy are evident based on patients' sex and ethnicity.
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Retrospective cohort study. ⋯ This study introduces an ML-based model using simple data at the first visit to precisely predict angle progression in female patients with AIS.