OBJECTIVE The authors have provided a review of radiographic subsidence after lateral
lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) as a comparative analysis between titanium and …

Alignment of the lumbar spine has an important impact on the segmental motion, degenerative
pathology, and health-related quality of life. The relationship between lumbar lordosis …

OBJECTIVE The aim of this paper was to use a prospective, longitudinal, multicenter outcome
registry of patients undergoing surgery for lumbar degenerative disease in order to assess …

Object Minimally invasive spinal (MIS) surgery techniques have been used sporadically in
thoracolumbar junction trauma cases in the past 5 years. A review of the literature on the …

Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) can cause dramatic impairments to health, social,
emotional, and economic well-being; this injury can also predispose the victims to a range of …

Study Design: Cadaveric study. Objective: To evaluate accuracy, radiation exposure, and
surgical time of a new robotic-assisted navigation (RAN) platform compared with freehand …

Background: The majority of ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt malfunctions are due to proximal
catheter failure. Ideal placement of Ommaya reservoirs is desired to avoid toxicity from …

Object There is significant practice variation and uncertainty as to the value of surgical
treatments for lumbar spine disorders. The authors' aim was to establish a multicenter registry to …

Object There are various surgical treatment alternatives for trigeminal neuralgia (TN), but
there is no single scale that can be used uniformly to assess and compare one type of …

Background: Adjacent segment pathology (ASP) following cervical disc arthroplasty (CDA)
or anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) is identified by imaging (RASP) or clinical …