BACKGROUND/CONTEXT C2 tilt and C2 slope are quick and easy measurements to obtain
on lateral radiographs and may be used to determine overall cervical sagittal alignment; …

Study design: Retrospective comparative study. Objective: Whereas smoking has been
shown to affect the fusion rates for patients undergoing an anterior cervical discectomy and …

Study Design: This is a retrospective cohort study. Objective: The objective of this study was
to further elucidate the relationship between pelvic incidence-lumbar lordosis (PI-LL) …

Study Design: Retrospective cohort study. Objective: The goal of this study was to determine
how smoking status influences patient-reported outcome measurements (PROMs) in …

Study Design: A retrospective cohort study. Objective: The goal of this study was to determine
the effect of smoking on patient-reported outcome measurements (PROMs) after lumbar …

BACKGROUND CONTEXT Spinopelvic parameters indicative of sagittal imbalance include
a pelvic tilt (PT) greater than 20 and a mismatch between pelvic incidence (PI) and lumbar …

Study Design: This was a retrospective cohort study. Objective: To determine the extent to
which the upper cervical spine compensates for malalignment in the subaxial cervical spine, …

Background: Currently, no authors of existing studies have attempted to classify the signal
characteristics of disc herniation on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and their temporal …

… Luis E Mujica … Denoting e i as the ith row of the matrix E , the Q-statistic for each
experiment can be defined as its squared norm as follows … Luis E Mujica …

Study Design: Retrospective cohort review. Objective: To determine whether higher levels of
social support are associated with improved surgical outcomes after elective spine surgery. …