MATERIALS AND METHODS. The study of the preliminary results and retrospective chart review of collected clinical and radiographic outcomes in 12 patients who underwent Direct Lateral Interbody Fusion L1-L5 as a treatment for degenerative disc disease, degenerative scoliosis and/or degenerative spondylolisthesis. Clinical outcomes measured include Visual Analog Scale (VAS) and Radiographic outcome.

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective study. PURPOSE To compare initial fixation using the cortical bone trajectory (CBT) technique versus conventional pedicle screws (PS) in radiographs of postsurgical lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Few reports have documented the holding strength of CBT technique for spondylolisthesis cases. METHODS From October 2009 to June 2014, 21...

We assigned 67 patients with central lumbar stenosis alternately to either multiple laminotomy or total laminectomy. The protocol, however, allowed multiple laminotomy to be changed to total laminectomy if it was thought that the former procedure might not give adequate neural decompression. There were therefore three treatment groups: group I consisting of 26 patients submitted to multiple lam...

background : lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis (lds) is a degenerative slippage of the lumbar vertebrae. we aimed to evaluate the surgical outcome of degenerative spondylolisthesis with neural decompression, pedicular screw fixation, reduction, and posterolateral fusion. methods : this before-after study was carried out on 45 patients (37 female and 8 male) with lds operated from august 200...

The clinical efficacy of reduction and fusion surgery and the suitable range of fusion-segment were evaluated in 12 pediatric patients treated for high-grade spondylolisthesis. Pre/post-operative clinical and radiological assessments were analyzed. A transient L5 nerve root paralysis was observed in one patient with L5 spondylolisthesis. No degenerative spondylolisthesis or adjacent segmental i...

Spondylolisthesis coexisting with tuberculosis is rarely reported. There is a controversy whether spondylolisthesis coexists or precedes tuberculosis. Few cases of pathological spondylolisthesis secondary to tuberculous spondylodiscitis have been reported in the lumbar and lumbosacral spine. All cases in the literature presented as anterolisthesis, except one which presented as posterolisthesis...

Concomitant spine and hip disease in patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty (THA) presents a management challenge. Degenerative lumbar spine conditions are known to decrease lumbar lordosis and limit lumbar flexion and extension, leading to altered pelvic mechanics and increased demand for hip motion. In this study, the effect of lumbar spine disease on complications after primary THA was a...