Evaluation of the Efficacy and Safety of FFX Facet Cages Compared With Pedicle Screw Fixation in Patients With Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: A Long-Term Study.

Study Design: Hybrid retrospective/prospective study.

Objective: The study evaluated the long-term safety and efficacy of the FFX facet cage versus pedicle screw (PS) fixation in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS).

Summary Of Background Data: A previous single-arm study reported on the safety, fusion rate, and patient outcomes associated with the use of the FFX facet cage in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis.

Intraoperatively diagnosed cerebellopontine angle facial nerve schwannoma: how to deal with it.

Objective: This study aimed to report our experience in the management of patients with intraoperatively diagnosed intracranial facial nerve schwannomas (FNSs) and propose a decision-making strategy.

Methods: Twenty-three patients with FNS of the internal auditory canal and/or cerebellopontine angle operated on between 1992 and 2012 were identified.

Results: Preoperatively, all cases have been radiographically diagnosed as vestibular schwannomas.

Spinal cord compression revealing an intraosseous schwannoma.

A 68-year-old female presented with inflammatory lumbalgia and cruralgia. Physical examination revealed a lumbar stiffness without neurological deficit. Secondarily, paraplegia and urinary retention appeared.

Surgical results and technical refinements in translabyrinthine excision of vestibular schwannomas: the Gruppo Otologico experience.

Background: Vestibular schwannomas (VSs) are the most common cerebellopontine angle tumors, accounting for 75% of all lesions in this location.

Objective: To evaluate the results after removal of VS through the enlarged translabyrinthine approach, which is a widening of the classic translabyrinthine approach that gives larger access and provides more room to facilitate tumor removal and to minimize surgery-related morbidities.

Methods: This was a retrospective study of 1865 patients who underwent VS excision through the enlarged translabyrinthine approach between 1987 and 2009.