Management of spinal conditions in patients with Parkinson disease

JF Baker, S McClelland III, RA Hart… - JAAOS-Journal of the …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Parkinson disease (PD) is increasingly prevalent in the aging population. Spine disorders in
patients with PD may be degenerative in nature or may arise secondary to motor effects …

An assessment of the most reliable method to estimate the sagittal alignment of the cervical spine: analysis of a prospective cohort of 138 cases

RD Donk, MG Fehlings, WIM Verhagen, H Arnts… - … of Neurosurgery: Spine, 2017 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE Although there is increasing recognition of the importance of cervical spinal
sagittal balance, there is a lack of consensus as to the optimal method to accurately assess …

[HTML][HTML] Inpatient morbidity after spinal deformity surgery in patients with movement disorders

R De la Garza Ramos, CR Goodwin, A Jain… - Journal of Spine …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background To investigate the inpatient perioperative morbidity rate of patients with
movement disorders (MD) after spinal deformity surgery. Methods The Nationwide Inpatient …