Spine
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Multicenter Study Observational Study
Return to Work after Surgery for Cervical Radiculopathy: A Nationwide Registry-based Observational Study.
An observational multicenter study. ⋯ 2.
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Multicenter Study
A Propensity Score-matched Analysis of Clinical Outcomes between Single- and Multi-level Intervertebral Decompression for Cervical Radiculopathy.
Retrospective multicenter study with propensity score matching. ⋯ In patients with cervical radiculopathy, the surgical outcomes of the SLDG showed better improvement in clinical outcomes than those of the MLDG. Numbness remained on the distal (arms) rather than the central (neck and upper back) areas in patients receiving multilevel decompression.
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Observational Study
Noninvasive Skin Autofluorescence of Advanced Glycation End Products for Detecting Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament in the Thoracic Spine.
A single-center prospective observational study. ⋯ The AGE score determined by noninvasive skin autofluorescence could help to screen for OPLL in the thoracic spine.
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Preclinical biomechanical study of topology optimization versus standard ring design for bioresorbable poly-ε-caprolactone (PCL) cervical spine fusion cages delivering bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2) using a porcine model. ⋯ A topology-optimized PCL cage with BMP-2 is capable of resulting in an intervertebral fusion, similar to a conventional ring-based design of the same bioresorbable material.
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Retrospective cohort study. ⋯ III.