Spine
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Retrospective review of prospectively collected data. ⋯ With an AUC of 0.829, NDI showed an excellent discriminative ability. Patients with NDI ≤21 are expected to achieve PASS following degenerative cervical spine surgery.
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Observational Study
Perinatal Disorders and Small Birthweight are Significantly Associated With Small Vertebral Neural Canal Size in a Contemporary Pediatric Autopsy Sample.
A retrospective, nonblinded, single-center observational study. ⋯ Level 2.
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Double-blinded, prospective laboratory animal study. ⋯ These results demonstrate that spine surgery for unilateral laminectomy induces central sensitization that results in postoperative pain hypersensitivity. Intraoperative SCS after laminectomy may be able to mitigate the development of this hypersensitivity in appropriately selected cases.
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Prospective cohort study. ⋯ Less aggressive decompression performed similarly to wider decompression across multiple different patient-reported outcome measures at two years following surgery.