BACKGROUND Spondylolithesis is forward slipping of upper vertebra in relation to its lower one, which at times requires surgery. The objective of present study is to document the outcome of surgical treatment in spondylolisthesis of lumbosacral region. METHODS We reviewed outcome of surgery in 45 patients with spondylolisthesis. Improvement in pain intensity, neurological status and union ach...

OBJECTIVE Posterior accessed lumbar interbody fusion (PALIF) has a clear objective to restore disc height and spinal alignment but surgeons may occasionally face the converse situation and lose lumbar lordosis. We analyzed retrospective data for factors contributing to a postoperative flat back. METHODS A total of 105 patients who underwent PALIF for spondylolisthesis and stenosis were enroll...

BACKGROUND Comparatively little is known about the relation between the sagittal vertical axis and clinical outcome in cases of degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis. The objective of this study was to determine whether lumbar sagittal balance affects clinical outcomes after posterior interbody fusion. This series suggests that consideration of sagittal balance during posterior interbody fusion...

AIM To describe a modified Jaslow-transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) technique for the treatment of single-level, isthmic spondylolisthesis (IS). MATERIAL AND METHODS Between April 2011 and September 2012, 32 patients with IS undergoing a modified Jaslow-TLIF, were retrospectively reviewed. The intervertebral space height (IH), vertebral slippage ratio, lordotic angles of the treat...

The history of the recognition of spondylolisthesis and of the illvestigation iIltO its cause makes interesting reading. Herbiniaux (1782), a Belgian obstetrician, was possibly the first to draw attention to this lesion, although in 1741 Andry had described the cause ofa hollow back as a warping of the spine inwards. Originally attention was attracted to it as a cause ofobstruction in labour. D...

Försth, P. 2015. On Surgery for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1135. 66 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9340-0. The incidence of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is steadily rising, mostly because of a noticeably older age structure. In Sweden, LSS surgery has increased continuously over the ...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective study. PURPOSE The aims of the current study are to evaluate the minimum 10-year follow-up clinical results of anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) for degenerative spondylolisthesis. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE ALIF has been widely used as a treatment regimen in the management of lumbar spondylolisthesis. Still much controversy exists regarding the factors that aff...

BACKGROUND This is a retrospective analysis of long-term results of treatment of dysplastic, isthmic and degenerative spondylolisthesis with interbody fusion and transpedicular screw fixation. MATERIAL AND METHODS Twenty-one patients underwent interbody fusion with the "Bialstab" transpedicular system. Anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) was subsequently performed in 2 patients. In the re...

Traumatic cervical severe spondylolisthesis is a rare and severe lesion which is typically associated with a spinal cord injury. Nevertheless, it occasionally has a pauci-symptomatic course which may delay its diagnosis. The authors report an exceptional case of a 33-year-old woman who had mild spasticity in her lower limbs and neck pain 9 months after a traffic accident. The computed tomograph...