Spine

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Spine · Jun 2023

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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Spine · Jun 2023

Intraoperative Spinal Cord Stimulation Mitigates Central Sensitization after Spine Surgery in Mice.

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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Spine · Jun 2023

Paraspinal Sarcopenia is Associated with Worse Patient Reported Outcomes following Laminoplasty for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy.

Retrospective cohort study. ⋯ 3.

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Spine · May 2023

Clinical Trial

Postoperative Dural Sac Cross-sectional Area as an Association for Outcome after Surgery for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis. Clinical and Radiological Results from the Nordsten-spinal Stenosis Trial.

Prospective cohort study. ⋯ Less aggressive decompression performed similarly to wider decompression across multiple different patient-reported outcome measures at two years following surgery.

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Spine · May 2023

Meta Analysis

Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms and Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Literature.

Meta-analysis. ⋯ There seem to be associations between AIS and genetic SNP. Further larger studies should be conducted to validate the results.

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