…NY). The findings from Kumar19 comparing decompression alone and decompression with interlaminar stabilization, combined with the publication from Musacchio26 comparing five-year outcomes of decompression with interlaminar stabilization and decompression…

…lumbar disc herniation; AE, adverse events; SAE, serious adverse events; yrs, years; y, year; mo, months; d, days   * These studies report 90 d, 2 yrs, 3 yrs,…

…success compared to fusion.64–66 Currently, activL Artificial disc (Aesculap Implant Systems) and Prodisc-L (Syntheses Spine) are the only two commercially available FDA-approved devices. Other lumbar devices had completed PMA…

…has facilitated further understanding of radiographic adjacent segment degeneration and symptomatic adjacent segment disease with cervical arthroplasty. Phillips et al. reported more frequent radiographic adjacent segment degeneration with ACDF…

…vertebral augmentation of osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture: a comparison of balloon kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty. Arch Orthop Trauma Surg. 2010;130(9):1157-1166. Kumar K, Nguyen R, Bishop S. A comparative analysis of…

…1 studies demonstrating decreased adjacent segment degeneration, minimal component wear issues, and lower revision rates than fusion. Rationale A common definition of an experimental technique is one that is…

…(TCP, hydroxyapatite, or combinations of the 2. These osteoconductive compounds have been favored because they elicit very little immunologic reaction in adjacent tissues and have negligible systemic toxicity. The…

…What Causes It? Spine. 2006; 31: 2151-2161. Aebi M. The adult scoliosis. Eur Spine J. 2005; 14: 925-948. Alkherayf F, Wai EK, Tsai EC, Agbi C. Daily smoking and…

…Wang SC, Wong HK, Teoh SH. A component oriented software toolkit for patient-specific finite element model generation. Advances in Engineering Software. 40 (3) 2009 pp184-192 Tan KJ, Wong HK,…

…patients. So comparative effectiveness research will use meta-analysis, randomized comparative trials, and datamining of giant patient registries to compare two or more real-world treatments in the typical real-world patient…

…events as each differ in type of adverse events and rate of adverse events and consequences of adverse events. [COMMENTS ABOUT Qs 4-6 – Are these the best comparators?…

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