To assess of the value of conservative and operative treatment of osteochondritis dissecans
of the knee, a multicenter study was performed. In 12 European countries, 798 cases of …

Background: Perioperative surgical site infection (SSI) after pediatric spine fusion is a recognized
complication with rates between 0.5% and 1.6% in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and …

Congenital muscular dystrophies are a group of rare neuromuscular disorders with a wide
spectrum of clinical phenotypes. Recent advances in understanding the molecular …

Background To explore clinical heterogeneity of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD),
viewed as a major obstacle to the interpretation of therapeutic trials Methodology/Principal …

Study Design. Retrospective review. Objective. Our objective was to assess the short-term
complication rate in patients undergoing treatment of thoracolumbar fixed sagittal plane …

Study Design. This was a retrospective review of a consecutive series of patients with
neuromuscular spinal deformity who underwent posterior fusion and pelvic fixation using a long …

BACKGROUND: Unintended durotomy is a common complication of spinal surgery. However,
the incidences reported in the literature vary widely and are based primarily on relatively …

BACKGROUND CONTEXT: The Scoliosis Research Society (SRS) has maintained a morbidity
and mortality index to track their complication rates. Due to the large number of cases …

Object The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prospectively collected Scoliosis Research
Society (SRS) database to assess the incidences of morbidity and mortality (M&M) in the …

Object This is a retrospective review of 10,242 adults with degenerative spondylolisthesis (DS)
and isthmic spondylolisthesis (IS) from the morbidity and mortality (M&M) index of the …