[Surgical strategy for the treatment of thoracolumbar metastatic tumor and its clinical outcomes].

Objective: To evaluate surgical strategy and clinical outcomes for the treatment of thoracolumbar metastatic tumor.

Methods: From January 2009 to December 2010,42 patients with thoracolumbar metastatic tumor were treated surgically. Among the patients, 30 patients were male, and 12 patients were female, ranging in age from 28 to 76 years old, with an average age of 56.

[Complication and treatment of the lumbar intervertebral disc herniation using percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy].

Objective: To summarize and discuss the lapsus and the treatment of the lumbar intervertebral disc herniation using percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy (PELD).

Methods: Between July 2002 and October 2010, 689 patients with lumbar intervertebral disc herniation treated by PELD were analyzed, including 448 males, and 241 females. Single lumbar intervertebral disc herniation were 669 cases.

Treatment of lumbar and lumbosacral spinal tuberculosis with minimally invasive surgery.

Objective: To evaluate the outcome of computed tomography (CT)-guided percutaneous puncture and local chemotherapy for tuberculosis (TB) of the lumbar or lumbosacral spine.

Methods: From January 2002 to August 2006, 49 patients with lumbar or lumbosacral spinal TB in whom conservative treatment had failed were treated by minimally invasive surgery. There were 21 female and 28 male patients.

[Characteristics of nerve root compression caused by degenerative lumbar stenosis with scoliosis].

Objective: To investigate the factors that may contribute to radiculopathy in degenerative lumbar stenosis with scoliosis (DLSS) and their association with the pattern of the scoliosis.

Methods: Twenty-seven patients with DLSS were examined in our hospital. The symptomatic nerve roots were determined by pain distribution, and neurological findings.

[Freeze-dried allograft of posterior spinal fusion in patients with scoliosis].

Objective: To observe the effectiveness and safety of allograft in posterior spinal fusion in patients with scoliosis.

Methods: 41 cases of 54 scoliosis patients with allograft for spinal fusion were followed up. The mean follow-up time is 16 months.

[Anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion with allograft and internal fixation].

Objective: To evaluate the effect of cylindrical titanium mesh packing cancellous allograft in the anterior cervical fusion for the cervical spondylosis with anterior titanium plate.

Methods: Ninety-eight patients with cervical spondylosis underwent diskectomy and cancellous allograft contained in cylindrical titanium mesh enhanced by anterior titanium plate system. Sixty-four patients were followed up clinically and radiographically.