OBJECTIVE Osteoporosis has significant implications in spine fusion surgery, for which
reduced spinal bone mineral density (BMD) can result in complications and poorer …

Poor bone quality and low bone mineral density (BMD) have been previously tied to higher
rates of postoperative mechanical complications in patients undergoing spinal fusion. These …

BACKGROUND CONTEXT The importance of bone status assessment in spine surgery is
well recognized. The current gold standard for assessing bone mineral density is dual …

Study Design. Retrospective study. Objective. To investigate whether magnetic resonance
imaging-based vertebral bone quality (VBQ) score can predict pedicle screw loosening in …

Background Current evidence suggests that dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scans,
the conventional method defining osteoporosis, is underutilized and, when used, may …

OBJECTIVE Decreased bone mineral density as measured by dual-energy x-ray
absorptiometry (DEXA) has been reported to be associated with cage subsidence following …

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a routine assessment before spine surgery. We found
that the opportunistic use of MRI with the vertebral bone quality (VBQ) score has good …

BACKGROUND CONTEXT Cage subsidence following transforaminal lumbar interbody
fusion (TLIF) has been associated with poor bone quality. Current evidence suggests that …

Objective The present study is aimed to validate the ability of the vertebral bone quality
(VBQ) score to evaluate bone quality in patients with osteoporotic vertebral compression …

BACKGROUND: Proximal junctional kyphosis (PJK) and proximal junctional failure (PJF)
can be catastrophic complications associated with adult spinal deformity (ASD) surgery …