Relationship between number of prior lumbar spine surgeries and outcomes following spinal cord stimulator implantation: A multisite, retrospective pooled analysis.

Objectives: Lumbar spine surgery is a common procedure for treating disabling spine-related pain. In recent decades, both the number and cost of spine surgeries have increased despite technological advances and modification in surgical technique. For those patients that have continued uncontrolled back and/or lower extremity pain following lumbar spine surgery, spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has emerged as a viable treatment option.

Stretch of the minimally invasive incision during thyroid and parathyroid surgery.

Objective: Identify and quantify changes in length of the skin incision following minimally invasive thyroid and parathyroid surgery and determine whether these changes persist postoperatively.

Study Design: Cohort study.

Setting: Tertiary care teaching hospital.