Spinal tuberculosis accounts for up to 50% of all cases with musculoskeletal tuberculosis. In patients needing surgical treatment, the use of anterior instrumentation offers the theoretical advantage of more complete debridement and decompression, safer mobilization and reliable deformity correction. However, the placement of instrumentation in an infected area remains a matter ...

Posterior spinal instrumentation and fusion techniques are used over decades to correct spinal deformities higher than 40 degrees in scoliotic subjects [1]. Although these methods are successfully decreased the spinal curvature in scoliosis, the biomechanical loading of the distal unfused vertebrae is not well studied after operation. Among unfused vertebrae sacrum, the connective vertebra betw...

Spinal tuberculosis usually occurs in a single vertebral body or two to three adjacent vertebrae; it rarely occurs in multiple vertebral bodies. Surgery is indicated in cases that do not improve with conservative therapy, or when paralysis is evident. Two cases regarding patients with spinal tuberculosis in multiple vertebral bodies on whom surgery was performed are reported. Case 1, the patien...

conclusions although spinopelvic fracture dislocation injuries are severe high-energy entities, in cases with traumatic spondylolytic spondylolisthesis due to widening of the vertebral canal, neurologic deficit may not be seen at all. case presentation we described a 16-year-old girl with extremely severe axial trauma to the lumbosacral spine who presented with fracture dislocation of the lumbo...

BACKGROUND The common and effective treatment for degenerative lumbar diseases is lumbar spinal fusion. Controversy still exists on the choice for instrumentation with spinal fusion procedures. Therefore, we conducted this meta-analysis exclusively of RCTs to compare the clinical outcomes of patients receiving bilateral versus unilateral pedicle screw fixation (PSF). MATERIAL AND METHODS Afte...

BACKGROUND The importance of the removal of spinal implants is known in the presence of infection. However, the benefits and/or risks of the removal of spinal implant for the management of back pain are not clear. METHODS In this retrospective study, we aimed to evaluate the beneficial effects of the removal of spinal implants for back pain. Study included 25 patients with thoracolumbar instr...

STUDY DESIGN A prospective, randomized and controlled study. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the osteoinductive property of Osteogenic Protein-1 (OP-1 or BMP-7) and fusion rate in human instrumented posterolateral lumbar fusion through radiographic examination, surgical exploration, and histologic assessment. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA The use of osteoinductive agents is a current topic in spinal fu...

In traumatic and degenerative diseases cervical fusion with anterior cervical plate are commonly used. The increase in the use of cervical plate segment level is also increased risk of developing complications. This case report shows that the increase in the use of cervical plate segment level and also the complications in cervical spinal instrumentation, short-segment cervical plate rare case ...