Background—Bone must have sufficient strength to withstand both instantaneous forces and
lower repetitive forces. Repetitive loading, especially when bone strain and/or strain rates …

Object. The authors retrospectively evaluated the safety and efficacy of a decompression
and fixation technique in the treatment of patients with multilevel cervical spondylotic …

Objectives: To determine the safety of pedicle screw fixation in thoracic spine deformity
correction. Methods: One hundred twelve pedicle screws were surgically placed in 25 patients …

Background Ipsilateral recurrent disc herniation after lumbar discectomy is a significant
problem in the management of lumbar disc disease and may necessitate repeat surgical …

Objectives To evaluate long-term treatment outcome of patients with infected posterior lumbar
interbody fusion (PLIF) managed with surgical debridement and or prolonged antiobiotic …

BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Adolescent disc herniation and its surgical treatment have been
the subjects of many published clinical series. The majority of these series were …

Study Design. Discs were cultured during discectomy from patients with back pain, sciatica,
and radiologic evidence of disc herniation causing nerve root compression. Objective. To …

Purpose The present study was undertaken to evaluate the safety and clinical outcome of
operative instrumented slip reduction in 12 adults with isthmic spondylolisthesis accompanied …

Purpose To evaluate the feasibility and clinical improvement of a total posterior arthroplasty
system in the surgical management of lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis and or spinal …

Purpose: To evaluate the frequency of loss of neurophysiological potentials during head
positioning, the usefulness of head repositioning to restore the potentials, and the effect on …