Spine
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Retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data from the National Swedish Spine Register (Swespine). ⋯ A surgically evacuated SSEH does not affect the outcome in terms of back/leg pain or health-related quality of life. Commonly used PROM surveys may not capture neurological deficits associated with SSEH.
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Systematic review. ⋯ 3.
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Retrospective. ⋯ MRI inflammatory features of the lumbar facet joints are often noted in patients with low back pain. The proposed grading system is reliable and could serve as a research tool for studies assessing the clinical relevance and prognostic value of these features.
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This is a retrospective, cross-sectional, population-based study that automatically measured the facet joint (FJ) angles from T2-weighted axial magnetic resonance imagings (MRIs) of the lumbar spine using deep learning (DL). ⋯ The authors developed a DL-based framework that enabled us to study FT in a large cohort. Using the proposed method, the authors present the prevalence of FT in a Finnish population-based cohort.
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Retrospective chart review. ⋯ Patient sex and proximal LL can serve as early indicators of the size of the femoral nerve safe zone during a transpsoas LLIF approach at L4-L5.