Patients considered in this review were those treated in the teaching units of the Department
of Surgery of the University of Toronto between the years of 1968 and 1975. There were 94 …

We performed quantitative computed tomography in vitro on the first and third lumbar vertebrae
in human cadavera using a dibasic potassium phosphate phantom for calibration. The …

The records of all patients who had had a total hip replacement complicated to a fracture of
the ipsilateral femur in the intraoperative or postoperative period were collected from six …

BACKGROUND: Spinal reconstructive surgery in adults can be associated with significant
blood loss, often requiring allogeneic blood transfusion. The objective of this randomized, …

… There was a strong correlation with an r value of 0.71. The residual kyphosis was compared
to both the SF-36 pain scale (r = 0.10) and the Roland and Morris scale (r = 0.003) indicating …

Clinical and standard radiographic evaluation of patients with lumbosacral radicular symptoms
may, on occasion, fail to delineate a cause. This study retrospectively reviews 62 patients …

A total of 33 patients with renal cell carcinoma metastatic to the spine underwent spinal
decompression over a 5-year period; 20 were operated on for neurologic dysfunction, and the …

The purpose of this investigation was to measure the reduction in bone strength resulting
from drill holes in diaphyseal bone and to compare this with finite element and theoretical …

Bone cells derived from human trabecular explants display osteoblastic features. We
examined the modulation of alkaline phosphatase activity and cAMP production as the result of …

Metastatic lesions due to renal cell carcinoma are frequently hypervascular. This study
reports the results of preoperative embolization of skeletal metastases from hypernephroma. …