Spine
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Physical function outcome in cervical radiculopathy patients after physiotherapy alone compared with anterior surgery followed by physiotherapy: a prospective randomized study with a 2-year follow-up.
Prospective randomized study. ⋯ 2.
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Surgical treatment of Lenke 1 main thoracic idiopathic scoliosis: results of a prospective, multicenter study.
Prospective, consecutive, nonrandomized, multicenter study. ⋯ 2.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Epidural steroid injections are associated with less improvement in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis: a subgroup analysis of the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial.
Subgroup analysis of prospective, randomized database from the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT). ⋯ Despite equivalent baseline status, ESIs were associated with significantly less improvement at 4 years among all patients with spinal stenosis in SPORT. Furthermore, ESIs were associated with longer duration of surgery and longer hospital stay. There was no improvement in outcome with ESI whether patients were treated surgically or nonsurgically.
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Multicenter Study
Risk factors for medical complication after cervical spine surgery: a multivariate analysis of 582 patients.
Multivariate analysis of prospectively collected registry data. ⋯ Risk factors identified in this study can be beneficial to clinicians and patients alike when considering surgical treatment of the cervical spine. Future analyses and models that predict the occurrence of medical complication after cervical spine surgery may be of further benefit for surgical decision making.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
ProDisc-C and anterior cervical discectomy and fusion as surgical treatment for single-level cervical symptomatic degenerative disc disease: five-year results of a Food and Drug Administration study.
Randomized controlled trial. ⋯ Five-year results show that TDR with ProDisc-C is a safe and effective treatment of single-level symptomatic cervical disc disease. Clinical outcomes were comparable with ACDF. ProDisc-C patients maintained motion at the index level and had significantly less neck pain intensity and frequency as well as a lower probability of secondary surgery.