Persistent Shoulder Pain After Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion (ACDF): Another Dual Pathology.

Purpose It is often difficult for the clinician to isolate the etiology of pain occurring either in the neck or shoulder because of the reason that neck pain can refer to the shoulder and vice versa. Concordance research has found that around one in 10 patients who were referred for cervical radiculopathy had comorbid shoulder pathology. The goal of this research is to analyze and correlate risk factors for persistent shoulder pain (non-dermatomal) following cervical spine surgery.

Management of spinal tuberculosis - a metropolitan city based survey among orthopaedic and neurosurgeons.

Objective: To explore the core understanding of spinal tuberculosis and its current management plans by orthopaedics and neurosurgeons.

Methods: The questionnaire-based study was conducted from July 2011 to November 2012 in Karachi and comprised consultant orthopaedics and neurosurgeons belonging to 4 private and 3 government tertiary care teaching hospitals and having a minimum five years of post-fellowship experience. A pre-designed questionnaire was used to explore the current practice in spinal tuberculosis regarding its clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment.