BACKGROUND The aim of our study was to evaluate the clinical efficacy of posterior vs. anterior instrumentation for the treatment of spinal tuberculosis in adults. METHODS The electronic databases such as PubMed, MEDLINE, Springer, EMBASE, Google scholar, and Cochrane library were searched to select the potentially relevant reports that compared the efficacy of posterior instrumentation group...

BACKGROUND Secondary systemic vasculitis after posterior spinal fusion surgery is rare. It is usually related to over-reaction of immune-system, to genetic factors, toxicity, infection or metal allergies. CASE DESCRIPTION A 14 year-old girl with a history of extended posterior spinal fusion due to idiopathic scoliosis presented to our department with diffuse erythema and nephritis (macroscopi...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective study. PURPOSE To compare the neurological outcome of transforaminal debridement and interbody fusion with transpedicular decompression for treatment of thoracic and lumbar spinal tuberculosis. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Few articles have addressed the impact of neurological recovery in patients with tuberculosis who were treated by two different operative methods via...

BACKGROUND High morbidity has been reported with iliac crest bone graft harvesting; however, donor bone is typically necessary for posterior spinal fusion. Autograft bone combined with allograft may reduce the morbidity associated with iliac crest bone harvesting and improve the fusion rate. Our aim in this study was to determine the presence of complications, pseudarthrosis, non-union, and inf...

A case of traumatic spondyloptosis of the cervical spine at the C6-C7 level is reported. The patient was treated succesfully with a anterior-posterior combined approach and decompression. The patient had good neurological outcome after surgery. A-51-year-old female patient was transported to our hospital's emergency department after a vehicle accident. The patient was quadriparetic (Asia D, MRC...

Introduction: Cranial traction leading to 6th nerve palsy is the main cause of developing diplopia following spinal surgery. Very few cases of abducens nerve palsy as a complication of surgery without cranial traction have been described. We review a series of four patients who developed diplopia following spinal surgery only one of which had cranial pins or apparent traction on the abducens ne...

STUDY DESIGN This is a retrospective study. PURPOSE To determine the efficacy and safety of a posterior transpedicular approach with regard to functional and radiological outcomes in people with thoracic and thoracolumbar spinal tuberculosis. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Spinal tuberculosis can cause serious morbidity, including permanent neurological deficits and severe deformities. Medical trea...

OBJECTIVE Spinal fusion operation is an effective treatment in the spinal pathology, but it could change the physiological distribution of load at the instrumented and adjacent segments. This retrospective study compared the radiological and clinical outcomes of patients undergoing lumbar fusion with semirigid rods versus rigid rods system. METHODS Using transpedicular fixation and posterior ...