OBJECTIVE To assess the concerns of adult patients with spine-related complaints during the period between referral to and consultation with a spine surgeon. DESIGN Prospective survey. SETTING Toronto, Ont. PARTICIPANTS A total of 338 consecutive, nonemergent patients before consultation with a single spine surgeon over a 5-month period. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Patient concerns, effect of...

UNLABELLED Lymphoma of the tongue is very rare and accounts for 1% of all malignant tumors of the oral cavity. We present a patient who presented with weakness and difficulties with ambulation who was a known cervical spine spondylosis and stenosis patient. During the preoperative workup for cervical spine surgery a tumor at the base of the tongue was discovered which was confirmed by pathology...

BACKGROUND CONTEXT Readmissions within 30 days of hospital discharge are undesirable and costly. Little is known about reasons for and predictors of readmissions after elective spine surgery to help plan preventative strategies. PURPOSE To examine readmissions within 30 days of hospital discharge, reasons for readmission, and predictors of readmission among patients undergoing elective cervic...

With advances in spine surgery, congenital spine deformity can now be treated with corrective fusion and osteotomy, even in young children. In these patients, the spine has various complications of vertebral anomalies and congenital fusion. A successful and safe outcome of corrective surgery requires evaluation by imaging preoperatively. Congenital spinal anomaly has conventionally been evaluat...

thy after lumbar spine surgery. Arch Ophthalmol 1994; 112: 925–31 4 Practice advisory for perioperative visual loss associated with spine surgery—a report by the ASA Task Force on Perioperative Blindness. Anesthesiology 2006; 104: 1319–28 5 Lee LA, Roth S, Posner KL, et al. The American Society of Anesthesiology Postoperative Visual Loss Registry—analysis of 93 spine surgeries associated with p...

STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of online spine-related patient education materials from leading academic centers. OBJECTIVE To assess the readability levels of spine surgery-related patient education materials available on the websites of academic orthopedic surgery departments. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA The Internet is becoming an increasingly popular resource for patient education...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective review of a large series of patients who underwent spinal surgery at a single institution during a 10-year period. OBJECTIVES To further clarify the frequency of incidental durotomy during spine surgery, its treatment, associated complications, and results of long-term clinical follow-up. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Incidental durotomy is a relatively common occurr...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective study and literature review. OBJECTIVE To provide more comprehensive data about carotid artery injury (CAI) or cerebrovascular accident (CVA) related to anterior cervical spine surgery. METHODS We conducted a retrospective, multicenter, case series study involving 21 high-volume surgical centers from the AOSpine North America Clinical Research Network. Medical rec...

STUDY DESIGN A case report and literature review is presented of a patient that developed acute angle-closure glaucoma (AACG) after undergoing spine surgery in the prone position. OBJECTIVES To report a case of AACG after undergoing spine surgery in the prone position and describe potential causes and implications for future care. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Visual loss is a devastating comp...

the purpose of this study is to summarize the treatment options for scoliosis and spine deformities from antiquity through medieval times up to the renaissance. furthermore, it is to present the contribution of “the father of modern surgery”, ambroise paré (1510-1590), to this field. paré was a distinguished surgeon of the renaissance with many contributions to surgery, including war trauma, ob...