Global spine journal
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Global spine journal · Jun 2021
Saphenous Nerve Somatosensory-Evoked Potentials Monitoring During Lateral Interbody Fusion.
Retrospective cohort study. ⋯ Saphenous SSEPs can be used to detect electrophysiological changes to prevent femoral nerve injury during LLIF. Intraoperative SSEP recovery after amplitude reduction or loss may be a prognostic factor for final clinical outcome.
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Global spine journal · Jun 2021
Risk Factors for Immediate Postoperative Coronal Imbalance in Degenerative Lumbar Scoliosis Patients Fused to Pelvis.
Retrospective case-control radiographic study. ⋯ In addition to known risk factors such as type C, preoperative coronal consistency pattern might be a new risk factor for postoperative coronal imbalance in DLS patients fused to pelvis.
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Narrative review. ⋯ Artificial intelligence has tremendous potential in revolutionizing comprehensive spine care. Evidence-based, predictive analytics can help surgeons improve preoperative patient selection, surgical indications, and individualized postoperative care. Robotic-assisted surgery, while still in early stages of development, has the potential to reduce surgeon fatigue and improve technical precision.
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Global spine journal · May 2021
The 100 Most-Cited Publications in Endoscopic Spine Surgery Research.
A bibliometric review of the literature. ⋯ This bibliometric study is meant to produce a list of intellectual milestones in the field of ESS. This article's identification of the most influential articles in the field of ESS gives us a unique and comprehensive insight into the development of ESS in the past several decades.
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Global spine journal · Mar 2021
Multimodality Intraoperative Neuromonitoring in Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion: A Review of Alerts in 628 Patients.
Retrospective review of private neuromonitoring databases. ⋯ IONM may provide the greatest utility at L4-L5, particularly MEPs, and may not be necessary for more cephalad LLIF procedures such as at L1-L2.