European Spine Journal

Inter-software and inter-threshold reliability of quantitative paraspinal muscle segmentation

Sihai Liu, Hendrik Schmidt, Katharina Ziegeler, Tianwei Zhang, Daishui Yang, Nima Taheri, Matthias Pumberger, Luis Becker

Patients with a large ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament have a higher incidence of arteriosclerosis in the carotid artery

Yasushi Oshima, Toru Doi, Nozomu Ohtomo, Yusuke Ito, Koji Nakajima, Kosei Nagata, So Kato, Yuki Taniguchi, Yoshitaka Matsubayashi, Sakae Tanaka

Simplified Chinese version of the core outcome measures index (COMI) for patients with neck pain: cross-cultural adaptation and validation

Yuan Dong, Shiqi Cao, Dingfei Qian, Haichao Yu, Zelong Song, Chengqi Jia, Wenhao Hu, Xuesong Zhang

Cross-cultural adaptation, validation and establishment of the minimal clinically important change score of the European Portuguese core outcome measures index in patients with lumbar degenerative spine disease

Pedro Valente Aguiar, Pedro Santos Silva, Diana Lucas, Rui Vaz, Paulo Pereira, Anne F. Mannion

Complications in endoscopic spine surgery: a systematic review

Domenico Compagnone, Filippo Mandelli, Matteo Ponzo, Francesco Langella, Riccardo Cecchinato, Marco Damilano, Andrea Redaelli, Giuseppe Maria Peretti, Daniele Vanni, Pedro Berjano

Is unilateral-approach full-endoscopic lumbar fusion effective for single-level lumbar spondylolisthesis with bilateral symptoms? A preliminary report of 43 CT analysis

Xu Shen, Yu-cheng Gao, Pei Zhang, Peng Song, Zan-li Jiang, Feng Wang, Wen-bin Xuan, Zeng-xin Gao

The novel Kambin Torpedo full-endoscopic lumbar interbody fusion technique: a case series

Ping-Chi Tsai, Yueh-Ching Liu, Ting-Kuo Chang, Lei-Po Chen, Yu-Ching Huang, Yan-Shiang Lian, Kai-Ting Chien

Applications of navigation in full-endoscopic spine surgery

Bradley T. Schmidt, Kuo-Tai Chen, JinSung Kim, Nathaniel P. Brooks

Lesson learned in endoscopic endonasal dens resection for C1–C2 spinal cord decompression

Irene Portonero, Enrico Lo Bue, Federica Penner, Giuseppe Di Perna, Bianca Maria Baldassarre, Raffaele De Marco, Alessandro Pesaresi, Diego Garbossa, Giancarlo Pecorari, Francesco Zenga

Association of spinal–pelvic parameters with recurrence of lumbar disc herniation after endoscopic surgery: a retrospective case–control study

Yu-hao Pan, Dun Wan, Qi Wang, Wen-jun Shen, Jin-rui Yang, Zhong-Yu Wang, Zong-lin Cai, Shui Jiang, Min Cao

Transforaminal endoscopic lumbar discectomy using a 45° puncture angle and foraminotomy versus traditional THESYS for L5/S1 lumbar disc herniation: a prospective randomized controlled trial

Yuxuan Qian, Zhiheng Chen, Guowang Zhang, Xin Wang, Ji Liu, Aofei Yang, Jianguang Xu, Xiaofeng Lian

Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation and endoscopic neurotomy for lumbar facet joint syndrome: are they good enough?

Ruihuan Du, Jing Gao, Bo Wang, Jing Zhang, Meng Meng, Jingzuo wang, Wentao Qu, Zhonghai Li

Virtual reality is effective in the management of chronic low back ache in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Vishal Kumar, Arvind Janardhan Vatkar, Mohak Kataria, Sarvdeep Singh Dhatt, Vishnu Baburaj

Beneficial and harmful effects of physical activity on care-seeking for low back pain: the AUTBACK study

E. K. Ho, M. L. Ferreira, A. Bauman, AP Carvalho-e-Silva, M. B. Pinheiro, M. Hübscher, L. Calais-Ferreira, M. Simic, P. H. Ferreira

A clinicopathological study of low back pain due to middle cluneal nerve entrapment: case series

Kyongsong Kim, Jun Shimizu, Toyohiko Isu, Daijiro Morimoto, Akatsuki Kubota, Akio Morita, Yasuo Murai

Diet and risk of low back pain: a Mendelian randomization analysis

Shanshan Liu, Xiaofeng Lv, Xinmin Deng, Rui Lai, Jihang Du, Chao Wang

The effect of visual feedback-based clinical monitoring application in patients with chronic low back pain: a randomized controlled trial

Fatih Özden, Bekir Güçlü, İsmet Tümtürk, Özgür Nadiye Doğrukök, Ahmet İmerci, Baki Umut Tuğay

Examining the factors influencing postpartum musculoskeletal pain: a thorough analysis of risk factors and pain assessment indices

Meng Li, Dan Li, Jingyu Bu, Xinwen Zhang, Yuanyuan Liu, Heng Wang, Lan Wu, Ke Song, Tian Liu

Causations between obesity, diabetes, lifestyle factors and the risk of low back pain

Yi Liu, Gang Tang, Jinyu Li

Effect of revision sacroiliac joint fusion on unresolved pain and disability: a retrospective cohort study

Levi Brown, Marc Swiontkowski, Kari Odland, David W. Polly Jr., Jason Haselhuhn

Altered central pain processing in patients with degenerative lumbar diseases and its association with low physical activity levels after lumbar spinal surgeries: a retrospective cohort analysis

Kaiwen Chen, Cong Nie, Yu Zhu, Feizhou Lyu, Jianyuan Jiang, Chaojun Zheng

Adult spinal deformity correction surgery using age-adjusted alignment thresholds: clinical outcomes and mechanical complication rates. A systematic review of the literature

E. Quarto, A. Zanirato, F. Vitali, M. Spatuzzi, S. Bourret, J. C. Le Huec, M. Formica

Restoration of the sagittal profile according to the Roussouly classification reduces mechanical complications and revision surgery in older patients undergoing surgery for adult spinal deformity (ASD)

Alan Gessara, Mohammed Shakil Patel, Martin Estefan, Jonathan E. J. Koch, Nadav Gutman, Ali Mardashti, Ali Shetaiwi, Nasir Ali Quraishi

In vivo segmental vertebral kinematics in patients with degenerative lumbar scoliosis

Fei Xu, Jialiang Lin, Shuai Jiang, Zhuoran Sun, Siyu Zhou, Zhuofu Li, Shaobai Wang, Weishi Li

Oblique lateral interbody fusion for lumbosacral fractional curve correction in degenerative lumbar scoliosis

Nam-Su Chung, Han-Dong Lee, Ki-Hoon Park, Jung Sunwoo, Hee-Woong Chung

Three-column osteotomy in long constructs has lower rates of proximal junctional kyphosis and better restoration of lumbar lordosis than anterior column realignment

Elliot Pressman, Molly Monsour, Deborah Liaw, Ryan D. Screven, Jay I. Kumar, Adolfo Viloria Hidalgo, Alexander M. Haas, Erik G. Hayman, Puya Alikhani

Polymethyl methacrylate augmentation and proximal junctional kyphosis in adult spinal deformity patients

Arthur R. Bartolozzi, Yousi A. Oquendo, Jayme C. B. Koltsov, Todd F. Alamin, Kirkham B. Wood, Ivan Cheng, Serena S. Hu

Relationships between lumbar lordosis correction and the change in global tilt (GT) in adult spinal deformity

Changyu Pan, Bourghli Anouar, Yue Yang, Lei Li, Lei Kuang, Bing Wang, Guohua Lv, Ibrahim Obeid

Moderate sagittal plane deformity patients have similar radiographic and functional outcomes with either anterior or posterior surgery

Anton Denisov, Andrea Rowland, Nikita Zaborovskii, Dmitrii Ptashnikov, Dimitriy Kondrashov

A comparison between Boston brace and European braces in the treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) patients: a systematic review based on the standardised Scoliosis Research Society (SRS) inclusion criteria for brace treatment

Yu Jie Lee, Wee Jieh Wang, Siti Mariam Mohamad, Josephine Rebecca Chandren, Siti Mariam Abd Gani, Weng Hong Chung, Chee Kidd Chiu, Chris Yin Wei Chan

Association of polymorphism in leptin receptor gene with susceptibility of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis

Antonio Eulalio Pedrosa Araujo Junior, Gustavo Borges Laurindo de Azevedo, Luis Antonio Medeiros Moliterno, Renato Henriques Tavares, Jessica Vilarinho Cardoso, Giuliana Rodrigues de Souza, João Antonio Matheus Guimarães, Helton Luiz Aparecido Defino, Jamila Alessandra Perini

The burden of scoliosis: a nationwide database study on demographics, incidence, and surgical rates

Yavuz Sağlam, Izzet Bingöl, Niyazi Erdem Yaşar, Ebru Dumlupınar, Naim Ata, M. Mahir Ülgü, Şuayip Birinci, Güzelali Özdemir, Okan Aslantürk, Barış Görgün

Assessing progressive changes in axial plane vertebral deformity in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis using sequential magnetic resonance imaging

Pawel T. Sowula, Maree T. Izatt, Robert D. Labrom, Geoffrey N. Askin, J. Paige Little

Prevalence of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China: a cross-sectional study

Lu Liu, Xuan Wang, Shuangqing Du, Wei Zhang, Yuqiang Xue, Xi Li, Tianci Gao, Yang Gao, Shaobiao Wang, Yaxuan Chen

Greater pelvic obliquity in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis combined with hip dysplasia

Xiaoxiong Zhao, Aixing Pan, Yong Hai

Does intervertebral disc degeneration in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis correlate with patient-reported pain scores? A review of 968 cases

Conor Boylan, Ravindra Thimmaiah, George McKay, Adrian Gardner, Matthew Newton Ede, Jwalant Mehta, Jonathan Spilsbury, David Marks, Morgan Jones

Restoring the ideal Roussouly sagittal alignment in Lenke 5 adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients: a method for decreasing the risk of proximal junctional kyphosis

Zhuang Zhang, Quan Zhou, Ce Zhu, Li-min Liu, Yue-ming Song, Xi Yang

Usefulness of the spectral shaping dual-source computed tomography imaging technique in posterior corrective fusion for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis

Yoshiyuki Noto, Yuki Endo, Masayuki Ohashi, Toru Hirano, Tatsuya Kuramoto, Koichi Chida, Kei Watanabe

Frontal correction assessment in severe adolescent idiopathic scoliosis surgery using halo gravity traction before to posterior vertebral arthrodesis: a multicenter retrospective observational study

Tristan Langlais, Antoine Josse, Philippe Violas, SOFOP, Franck Accadbled, Emilie André, Damien Fron, Antoine Hamel, Adèle Happiette, Thierry Haumont, Brice Ilharreborde, Pierre Journeau, Yan Lefèvre, Gregory Lucas, Christian Morin, Thierry Odent, Sébastien Pesenti, Jérôme Sales de Gauzy, Catalin Ursu, Raphaël Vialle

Bilateral vertebral body tethering: identifying key factors associated with successful outcomes

Daniel G. Hoernschemeyer, Patrick Elliott, Baron S. Lonner, Lily Eaker, Aaron Buckland, Ahmet Alanay, Amer Samdani, Amit Jain, A. Noelle Larson, Baron Lonner, Benjamin Roye, Bob Cho, Burt Yaszay, Caglar Yilgor, Chris Reilly, Dan Hoernschmeyer, Daniel Hedequist, Daniel Sucato, David Clements, Firoz Miyanji, Harry Shufflebarger, Jack Flynn, Jean Marc Mac Thiong, John Asghar, Josh Murphy, Joshua Pahys, Juergen Harms, Keith Bachmann, Kevin Neal, Laurel Blakemore, Lawrence Haber, Lawrence Lenke, Lori Karol, Mark Abel, Mark Erickson, Michael Glotzbecker, Michael Kelly, Michael Vitale, Michelle Marks, Munish Gupta, Nicholas Fletcher, Patrick Cahill, Paul Sponseller, Peter Gabos, Peter Newton, Peter Sturm, Randal Betz, Stefan Parent, Stephen George, Steven Hwang, Suken Shah, Sumeet Garg, Tom Errico, Vidyadhar Upasani, Melanie E. Boeyer

Simplified S1 vertebral bone quality (vbq) score to assess proximal junctional kyphosis after Lenke 5 adolescent idiopathic scoliosis surgery

Juehan Wang, Ce Zhu, Hong Ding, Yong Huang, Qian Chen, Youwei Ai, Ganjun Feng, Limin Liu, Yueming Song

Growing rods in meningomyelocele lead to increased risk for complications in comparison with fusion; a retrospective study of 30 patients treated for at the University Hospital of Uppsala

Michael G. Kontakis, Konstantinos Pazarlis, Thomas Karlsson, Håkan Jonsson, Nikos Schizas

Letter to the editor concerning “Impact of surgical treatment on lipid metabolism in patients with lumbar spinal disorders: prospective observational study” by Nakajima et al. (Eur Spine J [2023]; doi:10.1007/s00586-023–07976-y)

Shubei He, Si Chen

Answer to the letter to the editor of S. He, et al. concerning “impact of surgical treatment on lipid metabolism in patients with lumbar spinal disorders: prospective observational study” by Nakajima et al. (Eur Spine J [2023]; doi:10.1007/s00586-023–07976-y)

Yukio Nakajima, Kurenai Hachiya, Takehiro Michikawa, Sota Nagai, Hiroki Takeda, Soya Kawabata, Atsushi Yoshioka, Hirona Kimata, Daiki Ikeda, Shinjiro Kaneko, Yoshiharu Ohno, Yudo Hachiya, Nobuyuki Fujita

Letter to the Editor concerning “Association between posterior tibial slope and anatomic spinopelvic parameters: a retrospective cross-sectional study” by Caffard T, et al. (Eur Spine J. 2023; doi: 10.1007/s00586-023–07830-1)

Tugba Ozudogru Celik

Answer to the Letter to the Editor of Tugba Ozudogru Celik concerning “Association between posterior tibial slope and anatomic spinopelvic parameters: a retrospective cross-sectional study” by Caffard T, et al. (Eur Spine J. 2023; doi: 10.1007/s00586-023-07830-1)

Thomas Caffard, Hassan Awan Malik, Bernd Lutz, Oliver Dobrindt, Daniel Dornacher, Martin Faschingbauer, Patrick Strube, Heiko Reichel, Michael Fuchs, Timo Zippelius

Correction: Adjacent segment degeneration after single‑ and double‑level cervical total disc replacement: a cohort with an over 12‑year follow‑up

Yan Liang, Yalong Qian, Weiwei Xia, Chen Guo, Zhenqi Zhu, Haiying Liu, Shuai Xu

18th German Spine Congress Annual Meeting of the German Spine Society 29th November to 1st December 2023 Stuttgart, Germany

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