A novel method to judge the safe position of C2 lamina screw with double holes.

Background: To evaluate the feasibility of C2 laminar screw (C2LS) fixation assisted by double holes and to explore a novel method for judging its safe positioning.

Methods: The Digital Imaging in Communications format data of 25 C2 vertebrae specimens were obtained by computed tomography thin-slice scanning, and the data were imported into Mimics software for three-dimensional reconstruction. The bone cortex was removed at the starting and terminal midpoints of the lamina as the observation holes.

Intraoperative changes of surgical approach and a second surgery after percutaneous endoscopic surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis.

Objective: To investigate the reasons for a second surgery after Percutaneous Endoscopic Surgery (PES) for lumbar spinal stenosis and to provide references for the choice of indications and appropriate surgical approach.

Method: A total of 426 patients received PES for lumbar spinal stenosis. The postoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative data of the subjects were analyzed.

[Effects of tramadol hydrochloride preemptive analgesia in kyphoplasty of thoracolumbar osteoporotic fractures under local anesthesia].

Objective: To explore preemptive analgesic effect of preoperative intramural tramadol injection in percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP) of vertebrae following local anesthesia.

Methods: From August 2019 to June 2021, 118 patients with thoraco lumbar osteoporotic fractures were treated and divided into observation group and control group, with 59 patients in each gruop. In observation group, there were 26 males and 33 females, aged from 57 to 80 years old with an average of (67.

Functional mechanism of miR-92b-3p in osteogenic differentiation of fibroblasts in patients with ankylosing spondylitis via the TOB1/BMP/Smad pathway.

Background: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory arthritis. Upregulation of microRNA (miR)-92b-3p is associated with enhanced osteoblastic differentiation. The current study sought to investigate the functional mechanism of miR-92b-3p in osteogenic differentiation of AS fibroblasts.

Three novel PHEX gene mutations in four Chinese families with X-linked dominant hypophosphatemic rickets.

Background: X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH), the most common form of inherited rickets, is a dominant disorder that is characterized by renal phosphate wasting with hypophosphatemia, abnormal bone mineralization, short stature, and rachitic manifestations. The related gene with inactivating mutations associated with XLH has been identified as PHEX, which is a phosphate-regulating gene with homologies to endopeptidases on the X chromosome. In this study, a variety of PHEX mutations were identified in four Chinese families with XLH.