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forces across the fracture dislocation when the spine is being reduced to the rods with …

Purpose To report our early experience with minimally invasive surgery (MIS) in low-dysplastic
lumbosacral lytic spondylolisthesis (LDLLS), and to analyze the impact of surgery on …

The pull-out of the superior screw is a well recognized problem in anterior instrumentation
of the spine for scoliosis. A biomechanical pull-out study of anterior vertebral body screw in …

Minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS), including percutaneous pedicle-screw fixation (PPSF),
mini-open transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (m-open TLIF), vertebroplasty, and …

Discussion The majority of foot ulcers appear to result from minor trauma in the presence of
sensory neuropathy. This best describes the critical triad most commonly seen in patients …

Background: Several techniques have been developed for simpler and safer procedures
during the last 2 decades. Techniques of vertebral body augmentation have been developed in …

Introduction Balloon kyphoplasty is a procedure to stabilize osteoporotic and/or cancer related
VCFs. However, there is a technique inherent problem with the amount of reduction; when …

Spinal infections are a difficult problem, manifesting either as a dreaded postoperative
complication or present as diskitis and osteomyelitis in the absence of previous surgery. Its …

Because of the vascularity of giant cell tumours, embolization was performed preoperatively.
Angiography (Fig. 5) confirmed the vascular nature of the lesion. A hemisacrectomy was …

Vertebral compression fractures are frequent, and constitute a common and often debilitating
feature of osteoporosis. The incidence of vertebral compression fractures rises with age [1,2…