Background: Animal spinal cord injury (SCI) models have proved invaluable in better
understanding the mechanisms involved in traumatic SCI and evaluating the effectiveness of …

Background context Spine surgery is usually associated with large amount of blood loss,
necessitating blood transfusions. Blood loss-associated morbidity can be because of direct risks…

We present a two-part review article on the current state of knowledge of lumbar facet joint
pathology. This first article discusses the functional anatomy, biomechanics, and radiological …

Background Management of degenerative spondylolisthesis with spinal stenosis is
controversial. Surgery is widely used, but its effectiveness in comparison with that of nonsurgical …

Background context: Lumbar nerve root blocks and epidural steroid injections are frequently
employed in the management of degenerative conditions of the lumbar spine, but relatively …

Background: Adult spinal deformity is a prevalent cause of pain and disability. Established
measures of sagittal spinopelvic alignment such as sagittal vertical axis and pelvic tilt can be …

OBJECTIVE Although multiple reports have documented significant benefit from surgical
treatment of adult spinal deformity (ASD), these procedures can have high complication rates. …

ABSTRACT:: THE RESURGENCE OF pulmonary tuberculosis in the United States has
been paralleled by a concomitant rise in tuberculosis of the spine (Pott's disease). The …

… For continuous variables, unpaired t tests were used to assess differences in the distributions
between subsets of patients classified by categorical data, and paired t tests were used to …

An analysis of indications, techniques, results of stabilization and decompression of 100
consecutive spinal tumour cases was carried out. Localized metastatic disease is best operated …