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Assessing the utility of a clinical prediction score regarding 30-day morbidity and mortality following metastatic spinal surgery: the New England Spinal Metastasis Score (NESMS).
Patients with spinal metastasis are associated with many medical comorbidities. While surgical management for spine metastasis can improve quality of life, and improve function, The potential for complication, and worsening outcomes must be considered. This paper reviewed patient data from participating centers from 2007 to 2013 And assessed the 30 day mortality and morbidity for […]
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ISSLS Prize winner: The anatomy of failure in lumbar disc herniation: an in vivo, multimodal, prospective study of 181 subjects.
Conventional wisdom states that the mode of failure and cause of disc herniation is secondary to a rupture of nucleus material through the annulus fibrosis. In this paper, the senior author prospectively defined the nature of intraoperatively identified disc herniations in 181 consecutive patients qualified for inclusion. Inclusion criteria included requiring a single level lumbar […]
