Retrospective single-centre series of 1300 consecutive cases of outpatient cervical spine surgery: complications, hospital readmissions, and reoperations.

Outpatient surgery is becoming more common and is more cost-effective than inpatient surgery. Nonetheless, many surgeons and health care administrators are still hesitant to accept outpatient surgery for cervical degenerative spinal disease (C-DSD). This study assesses the types and rates of complications, hospital admissions, and reoperations after outpatient surgery of C-DSD.

Minimally Invasive Microsurgical Resection of Primary, Intradural Spinal Tumors is Feasible and Safe: A Consecutive Series of 83 Patients.

Background: To date, the traditional approach to intraspinal tumors has been open laminectomy or laminoplasty followed by microsurgical tumor resection. Recently, however, minimally invasive approaches have been attempted by some.

Objective: To investigate the feasibility and safety of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) for primary intradural spinal tumors.

Complications and long-term outcomes after open surgery for traumatic subaxial cervical spine fractures: a consecutive series of 303 patients.

Background: Patient selection for surgical treatment of subaxial cervical spine fractures (S-CS-fx) may be challenging and is dependent on fracture morphology, the integrity of the discoligamentous complex, neurological status, comorbidity, risks of surgery and the expected long-term outcomes. The purpose of this study is to evaluate complications and long-term outcomes in a consecutive series of 303 patients with S-CS-fx treated with open surgical fixation.

Methods: Medical charts were retrospectively reviewed.

The use of surgery for cervical degenerative disease in Norway in the period 2008-2014 : A population-based study of 6511 procedures.

Background: The incidence rate of surgical treatment of cervical degenerative diseases (CDD) has increased in the USA and a large geographic variation has been shown. Little is known about such rates in Scandinavia and Europe. The aim of this population-based study was to (1) investigate annual incidence rates of operations performed in Norway, (2) to compare trends and variations in rates for surgical indications with and without myelopathy, and (3) to compare variations in the use of surgery between residential areas.

The Long-term Outcome After Resection of Intraspinal Nerve Sheath Tumors: Report of 131 Consecutive Cases.

Background: The existing literature on recurrence rates and long-term clinical outcome after resection of intraspinal nerve sheath tumors is limited.

Objective: To evaluate progression-free survival, overall survival, and long-term clinical outcome in a consecutive series of 131 patients with symptomatic intraspinal nerve sheath tumors.

Methods: Medical charts were retrospectively reviewed.