BACKGROUND Bone mineral density (BMD) is known to have a positive correlation with lean body mass. Several studies have also reported the positive correlation between muscle power and BMD. From this point of view, we hypothesized BMD of lumbar spine to have a positive correlation with muscle mass. METHODS Seventy-nine female patients aged between 60 and 75 years old and who underwent magnetic...

OBJECTIVE Treatment of non-healing wounds of lower back often poses a powerful challenge. We present one of the first report of treatment of a lumbosacral defect with a supercharged latissimus dorsi flap with the skin paddle. CASE REPORT We report a case of a 59 year-old man with myeloma of the sacral spine who underwent radiotherapy and chemotherapy and subsequently, laminectomies and placem...

OBJECT Minimally invasive anterolateral approaches to the lumbar spine are options for the treatment of a number of adult degenerative spinal disorders. Nerve injuries during these surgeries, although rare, can be devastating complications. With an increasing number of spine surgeons utilizing minimal access retroperitoneal surgery to treat lumbar problems, the frequency of complications associ...

Fusion has become the standard of care for numerous pathologic conditions of the spine over the past 50 years. Instrumented thoracolumbar fusion for adolescent and adult spinal deformity has enjoyed great success in arresting the progression of and correcting scoliotic deformity. In the cervical spine, decompression and fusion have provided a greater than 90% likelihood of relieving radicular s...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the surgical outcome of traumatic lumbosacral spondylolisthesis treated using posterior lumbar interbody fusion, and help spine surgeons to determine the treatment strategy. METHODS We reviewed retrospectively five cases of traumatic lumbosacral spondylolisthesis treated in our hospital from May 2005 to May 2010. There were four male and one female patient, treated surgic...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine was used in 37 infants and children to assess the potential of this new technology to evaluate suspected lumbosacral dysraphic myelodysplasia. Eighteen of these patients had correlative metrizamide myelotomography and metrizamide computed tomography (CT). MRI using a spin-echo pulse sequence with short repetition times (TR) and echo delay times (TE)...

STUDY DESIGN The authors conducted a retrospective study involving description of a new surgical technique. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to describe and evaluate the efficacy of a new technique to stabilize the spine of young and small patients with congenital scoliosis after lumbosacral hemivertebra excision. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Congenital scoliosis develops as the res...