Presentation and outcomes after medical and surgical treatment versus medical treatment alone of spontaneous infectious spondylodiscitis: a systematic literature …

DG Taylor, AL Buchholz, DR Sure… - Global spine …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Study Design: Systematic literature review. Objectives: The aims of this study were to (1)
describe the clinical features, disabilities, and incidence of neurologic deficits of pyogenic …

Spondylodiscitis: standards of current treatment

A Di Martino, N Papapietro, A Lanotte… - Current Medical …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Spinal infections are an important clinical problem that often require
aggressive medical therapy, and sometimes even surgery. Known risk factors are advanced …

Evaluation of surgical strategy of conventional vs. percutaneous robot-assisted spinal trans-pedicular instrumentation in spondylodiscitis

N Keric, DJ Eum, F Afghanyar… - Journal of robotic …, 2017 - Springer
Robot-assisted percutaneous insertion of pedicle screws is a recent technique
demonstrating high accuracy. The optimal treatment for spondylodiscitis is still a matter of …

Induction of early degeneration of the adjacent segment after posterior lumbar interbody fusion by excessive distraction of lumbar disc space

T Kaito, N Hosono, Y Mukai, T Makino, T Fuji… - … of Neurosurgery: Spine, 2010 - thejns.org
Object Spinal fusion at the L4–5 disc space alters the normal biomechanics of the spine, and
the loss of motion at the fused level is compensated by increased motion and load at the …

Surgical results of long posterior fixation with short fusion in the treatment of pyogenic spondylodiscitis of the thoracic and lumbar spine: a retrospective study

CP Lin, HL Ma, ST Wang, CL Liu, WK Yu, MC Chang - Spine, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. A single-institution, single-surgeon retrospective review. Objective. To
evaluate the clinical results of long posterior instrumentation with short posterior or …

Extreme lateral interbody fusion with posterior instrumentation for spondylodiscitis

DJ Blizzard, CP Hills, RE Isaacs, CR Brown - Journal of Clinical …, 2015 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study was to evaluate our initial experience utilizing extreme lateral
interbody fusion (XLIF; NuVasive, San Diego, CA, USA) with percutaneous posterior …

Three-dimensional analysis of volumetric changes in herniated discs of the lumbar spine: does spontaneous resorption of herniated discs always occur?

JY Seo, YH Roh, YH Kim, KY Ha - European Spine Journal, 2016 - Springer
Purpose To investigate volumetric changes in lumbar disc herniation (LDH) using three-
dimensional measurements obtained by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and to identify …

Single posterior surgical management for lumbosacral tuberculosis: titanium mesh versus iliac bone graft: A retrospective case–control study

XH Yin, ZK Liu, BR He, DJ Hao - Medicine, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Recently, the one-stage posterior approach for treating spinal tuberculosis (TB) has gained
popularity. However, large bony defects after debridement remain a major challenge in …

Vacuum plasma sprayed porous titanium coating on polyetheretherketone for ACDF improves the osteogenic ability: An in vitro and in vivo study

C Liu, Y Zhang, L Xiao, X Ge, FC Öner, H Xu - Biomedical Microdevices, 2021 - Springer
Cervical degenerative disease is a common and frequently occurring disease, which
seriously affects the health and quality of the life of patients worldwide. Anterior cervical …

Effectiveness of combination use of antibiotic-loaded PerOssal® with spinal surgery in patients with spondylodiscitis

D von Stechow, MA Rauschmann - European Surgical Research, 2009 - karger.com
Degradable composites of calcium sulphate and nanoparticulate hydroxyapatite
(PerOssal®) have shown promising results in vitro. Here we investigated the handling …