BACKGROUND CONTEXT: The effectiveness of spinal surgery as a treatment option is
currently evaluated through the assessment of patient-reported outcomes (PROs). The minimum …

BACKGROUND CONTEXT: The impact of lumbar spinal surgery is commonly evaluated
with three patient-reported outcome measures: Oswestry Disability Index (ODI), the physical …

Background: Twenty-four-month outcomes have been reported for patients with degenerative
lumbar disc disease who were treated with stand-alone anterior lumbar interbody …

Adult spinal deformity may occur as the result of a number of conditions and patients may
present with a heterogeneous group of symptoms. Multiple etiologies may cause spinal …

BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Outcomes of spinal treatments are evaluated by clinical relevance:
the proportion of patients who reach a minimum clinically important outcome change. …

Study Design Prospective cohort study. Objectives In spine surgery, accurate screw guidance
is critical to achieving satisfactory fixation. Augmented reality (AR) is a novel technology to …

OBJECTIVE The analysis of sagittal alignment by measuring spinopelvic parameters has
been widely adopted among spine surgeons globally, and sagittal imbalance is a well-…

Study Design. A new spinal implant model was designed to study device-centered infection
with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in multiple noncontiguous surgical sites in …

Background Although a growing amount of literature that suggests robots are safe and can
achieve comparable outcomes to conventional techniques, much of this literature is limited by …

Os odontoideum has recently been considered an acquired lesion of the second cervical
vertebrae. This case documents the natural progression of the formation of os odontoideum …