Degenerative Spine Disease

Operative treatment of multisegmental degenerative spine disease

Anterior Cervical Spine Surgery for Degenerative Disease: A Review

Anterior cervical spine surgery is an established surgical intervention for cervical degenerative disease and high success rate with excellent long-term outcomes have been reported. However, indications of surgical procedures for certain conditions are still controversial and severe complications to cause neurological dysfunction or deaths may occur. This review is focused mainly on five widely...

Degenerative disease in lumbar spine of military parachuting instructors.

Parachuting, be it static line or skydiving, places enormous stresses on the human spine. It is, therefore, important to determine the prevalence and severity of degenerative changes in the lumbar spine of subjects who practice this sport activity. Seventy four parachuting instructors, mean age 33 years and with an average of 410 static line and skydiving jumps, were included in the study. Past...

[Degenerative instability of the lumbar spine].

Degenerative instability is difficult to define, diagnose, and treat. Diagnosis and treatment of degenerative instability are based on the biomechanical stability of the functional spinal unit as well as on the pathologic diagnosis of the disease. Recent advancements in biomechanical studies on the functional spinal unit and radiological diagnostic methods have introduced new diagnostic criteri...

Operative treatment of degenerative lumbar spine spondylolisthesis.

INTRODUCTION Management of degenerative lumbosacral spondylolisthesis with spinal stenosis is still controversial. Surgery is widely used, as well as non-surgical treatment. AIM To evaluate the clinical results and functional outcome after operative treatment in Grade II and III lumbar spine spondylolisthesis. MATERIAL AND METHODS Twelve patients with symptoms and image-confirmed degenerati...