STUDY DESIGN A retrospective study. PURPOSE To assess the radiographic progression of degenerative lumbar scoliosis after short segment decompression and fusion without deformity correction. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE The aims of surgery in degenerative lumbar scoliosis are the relief of low back and leg pain along with a correction of the deformity. Short segment decompression and fusion can b...

BACKGROUND CONTEXT Both open and minimally invasive lumbar fusion surgeries (MIS) are used to treat patients with symptomatic degenerative spinal pathologies. Open lumbar fusion surgery studies have reported excellent short-term safety and long-term clinical outcomes. MIS has shown excellent safety and short-term clinical success, but there is very little information on its long-term clinical d...

Low back pain (LBP) is a widespread health problem and a major contributor to increasing health costs and lost work days. Different pathologies cause LBP and one of these is lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis (SPL). There are no generally accepted and standardized methods for assessing the outcome of patients treated for degenerative lumbar SPL. This study aims to assess quality of life afte...

Low back pain (LBP) is a common complaint with various studies indicating a point prevalence of from 12% to 33%, a one-year prevalence from 22% to 65%, and lifetime prevalence from 11% to 84%. Most Western adults complaining of LBP do not seek professional treatment, but those with chronic spinal disorders have worse scores for measurement of physical function than those with most other conditi...

Three-level lumbar spondylolyses are extremely rare. So far, only 11 cases were reported in the literature. Treatment of multilevel spondylolyses has not been consistent. Conservative treatment is commonly considered first in most patients, but those who remain symptomatic may benefit from operative treatment. We report here 3 cases of 3-level lumbar spondylolyses that were treated successfully...

INTRODUCTION Despite some evidence that anxiety may affect length of stay (LOS), relatively little inquiry exists regarding this in neurosurgical literature. OBJECTIVE To determine the influence of anxiety on LOS after elective lumbar decompression and fusion (LDF) surgery. METHODS The medical records of 307 patients who consecutively underwent elective LDF surgery from October 1, 2010, thr...

Purpose. To investigate the evidence of minimally invasive (MI) versus open (OP) posterior lumbar fusion in treatment of lumbar spondylolisthesis from current prospective literatures. Methods. The electronic literature database of Pubmed, Embase, and Cochrane library was searched at April 2016. The data of operative time, estimated blood loss and length of hospital stay, visual analog scale (VA...

Pneumocephalus associated with spinal problems is very rare. Association with encephalomeningitis secondary to a fistula after an infected elective lumbar spine fusion has not been previously reported. The authors report a case in which the clinical onset of pneumoencephalomeningitis occurred after an airplane flight. CT-scan and lumbar puncture were used to make diagnosis; the treatment was ba...