Background At least 128,000 patients in the United States each year suffer from foot drop.
This is a debilitating condition, marked by the inability to dorsiflex and/or evert the affected …

Study Design. Retrospective chart review. Objective. This study aimed to examine
postoperative radiculitis after isolated L5-S1 anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) …

Study Design: This was a retrospective cohort study. Objective: While intraoperative
neuromonitoring (IONM) has been increasingly used in spine surgery to have a real-time …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND CONTEXT As more patients undergo anterior lumbar interbody
fusion (ALIF) procedures and more devices are created for that purpose, it is important to …

Objective Oblique lumbar interbody fusion (OLIF) is known as a minimally invasive
technique for disc space augmentation. Motor weakness after OLIF has been known to occur …

The surgical approach to high-grade spondylolisthesis at the lumbosacral junction remains
controversial. Appropriate surgical techniques can be challenging with the potential for high …

Interventions: We performed right facetectomy and right foraminotomy. During surgery, it was
confirmed that the right L4 nerve root was entrapped by the osteophyte. Outcomes …

Background Intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) became widely used in spine surgery to
reduce the risk of iatrogenic nerve injury. However, the proliferation of IONM has fallen into …

METHODS: Patients with ASD treated with a lumbar SE-PSO at a single institution from 2015
to 2020 were analyzed. Complications, radiographic data, and patient-reported outcomes …

Study design A single-centre retrospective study. Background and purpose This study aims
to investigate the rate of L5 radiculopathy, to identify imaging features associated with the …