Low back pain in older adults: risk factors, management options and future directions

AYL Wong, J Karppinen, D Samartzis - Scoliosis and spinal disorders, 2017 - Springer
Low back pain (LBP) is one of the major disabling health conditions among older adults
aged 60 years or older. While most causes of LBP among older adults are non-specific and …

Bone healing gone wrong: pathological fracture healing and non-unions—overview of basic and clinical aspects and systematic review of risk factors

D Saul, MM Menger, S Ehnert, AK Nüssler, T Histing… - Bioengineering, 2023 - mdpi.com
Bone healing is a multifarious process involving mesenchymal stem cells, osteoprogenitor
cells, macrophages, osteoblasts and-clasts, and chondrocytes to restore the osseous tissue …

Impacts of contracted endodontic cavities on instrumentation efficacy and biomechanical responses in maxillary molars

B Moore, K Verdelis, A Kishen, T Dao, S Friedman - Journal of endodontics, 2016 - Elsevier
Introduction Recently, we reported that in mandibular molars contracted endodontic cavities
(CECs) improved fracture strength compared with traditional endodontic cavities (TECs) but …

A systematic review of robotic surgery: From supervised paradigms to fully autonomous robotic approaches

J Han, J Davids, H Ashrafian, A Darzi… - … Journal of Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background From traditional open surgery to laparoscopic surgery and robot‐assisted
surgery, advances in robotics, machine learning, and imaging are pushing the surgical …

Minimally invasive decompression versus open laminectomy for central stenosis of the lumbar spine: pragmatic comparative effectiveness study

US Nerland, AS Jakola, O Solheim, C Weber, V Rao… - bmj, 2015 - bmj.com
Objective To test the equivalence for clinical effectiveness between microdecompression
and laminectomy in patients with central lumbar spinal stenosis. Design Multicentre …

Self-setting calcium orthophosphate formulations

SV Dorozhkin - Journal of functional biomaterials, 2013 - mdpi.com
In early 1980s, researchers discovered self-setting calcium orthophosphate cements, which
are bioactive and biodegradable grafting bioceramics in the form of a powder and a liquid …

Spine stereotactic body radiotherapy: indications, outcomes, and points of caution

CL Tseng, W Ep**a, R Charest-Morin… - Global spine …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Study Design: A broad narrative review. Objectives: The objective of this article is to provide
a technical review of spine stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) planning and delivery …

[HTML][HTML] Advances and evolving challenges in spinal deformity surgery

RV Patel, AG Yearley, H Isaac, EJ Chalif… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background: Surgical intervention is a critical tool to address adult spinal deformity (ASD).
Given the evolution of spinal surgical techniques, we sought to characterize developments …

Assessment of paraspinal muscle cross-sectional area after lumbar decompression: minimally invasive versus open approaches

LE Bresnahan, JS Smith, AT Ogden, S Quinn… - Clinical spine …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Study Design: A retrospective, blinded analysis of imaging studies. Summary of Background
Data: To evaluate changes in paraspinal muscle cross-sectional area (CSA) after surgical …

Comparison of open and minimally invasive surgery for intradural-extramedullary spine tumors

AP Wong, RR Lall, NS Dahdaleh, CD Lawton… - Neurosurgical …, 2015 - thejns.org
OBJECT Patients with symptomatic intradural-extramedullary (ID-EM) tumors may be
successfully treated with resection of the lesion and decompression of associated neural …