A systematic literature review of time to return to work and narcotic use after lumbar spinal fusion using minimal invasive and open surgery techniques

X Wang, B Borgman, S Vertuani, J Nilsson - BMC Health Services …, 2017 - Springer
Background Chronic low back pain is a common health problem for adult workers and
causes an enormous economic burden. With the improvement of minimally invasive surgical …

Myocardial infarction after lumbar surgery: a critical meta-analysis of cohort versus database studies for a rare complication

RJ Perez-Roman, VM Lu, V Govindarajan… - World neurosurgery, 2022 - Elsevier
Background One potentially fatal complication of spine surgery is myocardial infarction (MI).
There is still uncertainty of the true incidence of MI within subsets of spine surgeries. The aim …