OBJECT Controversy exists concerning the indications for surgery and choice of surgical procedure for patients with degenerative spondylolisthesis. The goals of this study were to determine the clinical course of nonsurgically managed patients with degenerative spondylolisthesis as well as the indications for surgery. METHODS A total of 145 nonsurgically managed patients with degenerative spo...

Recent literature supports the surgical reduction of high-grade spondylolisthesis, particularly with an unbalanced pelvis and spine. Drop foot is most common neurological complication reported in literature. Scoliosis Research Society database only one patient (child) cauda equina syndrome after surgery for dysplastic lumbosacral spondylolisthesis. The lack longitudinal clinical follow-up that ...

STUDY DESIGN Multicenter analysis of two groups of patients surgically treated for degenerative L4 unstable spondylolisthesis. PURPOSE To compare the clinical and radiographic outcomes of posterolateral fusion (PLF) and posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) for degenerative L4 unstable spondylolisthesis. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Surgery for lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis is widely p...

BACKGROUND A classification of lumbosacral spondylolisthesis has been proposed recently. This classification describes eight distinct types of spondylolisthesis based on the slip grade, the degree of dysplasia, and the sagittal sacro-pelvic balance. The objectives of this study are to assess the reliability of this classification and to propose a new and refined classification. METHODS Standi...

Objective: The goal of this study is to present surgical methods of nerve elements decompression in the vertebral canal and the techniques of internal spine stabilization in patients with degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis. Methods: Clinical analysis included 36 patients (17 females and 19 males) managed surgically due to degenerative spondylolisthesis at our Departments, between 1997 and 20...

Two collagen type IX gene polymorphisms that introduce a tryptophan residue into the protein's triple-helical domain have been linked to an increased risk of lumbar disc disease. To determine whether a particular subset of symptomatic lumbar disease is specifically associated with these polymorphisms, we performed a prospective case-control study of 107 patients who underwent surgery of the lum...

The term subluxation has been used in this title because it denotes forward displacement of the last lumbar vertebra on the sacrum without a defect of the interarticular part of the neural arch. Some authorities accept the term spondylolisthesis only when a neural arch defect is present, and describe those cases without such a lesion as subluxation despite the marked attenuation of the neural a...

Development of anesthesiology and improvement of surgical instruments enabled aggressive surgical treatment even in elderly patients, who require more active physical activities than they were in the past. However, there are controversies about the clinical outcome of spinal surgery in elderly patients with spinal stenosis or spondylolisthesis. The purpose of this study is to review the clinica...

To the authors' knowledge, this is the first article to present a pedicle subtraction osteotomy in the lumbar spine to correct and stabilize a high-grade isthmic spondylolisthesis, which poses many challenges with regard to treatment options and outcomes. The optimal surgical treatment for high-grade spondylolisthesis is controversial, but the goals of treatment are to stabilize the affected sp...

INTRODUCTION Traumatic lumbar spondylolisthesis is rare disease and in the literature, different surgical approaches, including anterior, posterior, or combined approaches (posterior and anterior) are used to treat the lesion. CASE PRESENTATION We treated a case of traumatic lumbosacral spondylolisthesis using posterior approach and the patient showed a satisfactory outcome. At the final foll...