Comparative Analysis of Cage Subsidence in Anterior Cervical Decompression and Fusion: Zero Profile Anchored Spacer (ROI-C) vs. Conventional Cage and Plate Construct.

Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) has been widely performed to treat cervical generative diseases. Cage subsidence is a complication after ACDF. Although it is known that segmental kyphosis, acceleration of adjacent segmental disease, and restenosis may occur due to cages subsidence; however detailed research comparing zero-profile cages (ROI-C) and conventional plate and cage construct (CPC) on cage subsidence has been lacking.

Comparison of the Wiltse Approach and Percutaneous Pedicle Screw Fixation Under O-arm Navigation for the Treatment of Thoracolumbar Fractures.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical outcomes of the Wiltse approach and percutaneous pedicle screw placement under O-arm navigation for the treatment of thoracolumbar fracture.

Methods: We enrolled a total of 54 patients with neurologically intact thoracolumbar fracture who received minimally invasive treatments between October 2014 and October 2018 in this retrospective study. Among these, 28 patients (22 males and six females, with a mean age of 48.

Percutaneous kyphoplasty for a patient of thoracolumbar osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures with distal lumbosacral pain: a case report.

When patients combined thoracolumbar osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture (OVCF) with lumbar degenerative disease, whose main clinical manifestations are distal lumbosacral pain (DLP), the therapeutic schedule should be made cautiously. We reported an 80-year-old female presented with long-term lumbosacral pain accused of lumbar disc herniation. Percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP) had been received because of OVCF at L1 vertebral body.

X-ray therapy promotes structural regeneration after spinal cord injury in a rat model.

Objective: This study aims to investigate the therapeutic effects and mechanisms of x-ray treatment on rats following spinal cord injury (SCI).

Methods: Forty-six female Sprague-Dawley rats were subjected to spinal cord injury using the modified Allen weight-drop method. The animals were randomly divided into six groups.

The application of a zero-profile implant in anterior cervical discectomy and fusion.

We analyzed the clinical efficacy of the Zero-P implant (Synthes GmbH Switzerland, Oberdorf, Switzerland) in the treatment of single level cervical spondylotic myelopathy. The clinical data of 47 patients with single level cervical spondylotic myelopathy were retrospectively analyzed. Twenty-two patients were treated with a Zero-P implant (Group A) and 25 with a titanium plate with cage (Group B) between January 2009 and September 2010.