Department of Geriatric Medicine, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, 7-430 Morioka, Obu, Aichi 474-8511, Japan.
Department of Palliative and Supportive Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Aichi Medical University, 1-1 Yazakokarimata, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1195, Japan.
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Aichi Medical University, 1-1 Yazakokarimata, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1195, Japan.
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Aichi Medical University, 1-1 Yazakokarimata, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1195, Japan.
Department of Palliative and Supportive Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Aichi Medical University, 1-1 Yazakokarimata, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1195, Japan.
Department of Nutrition, Hamamatsu City Rehabilitation Hospital, 1-6-1 Wagokita, Naka-Ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 433-8511, Japan.
Department of Palliative and Supportive Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Aichi Medical University, 1-1 Yazakokarimata, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1195, Japan.
Department of Clinical Nutrition and Food Service, NTT Medical Center Tokyo, 5-9-22 Higashi-Gotanda, Shinagawa-Ku, Tokyo 141-0022, Japan.
Department of Palliative and Supportive Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Aichi Medical University, 1-1 Yazakokarimata, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1195, Japan.
Nutritional Therapy Support Center, Aichi Medical University Hospital, 1-1 Yazakokarimata, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1195, Japan.
Department of Radiology, Liuzhou Worker's Hospital, Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Liuzhou, Guangxi, China. Electronic address: gl090522@163.com.
European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society
2024-03-24
European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society
2024-03-24
The Wiltse approach has been extensively employed in thoracolumbar surgeries due to its minimal muscle damage. However, in the middle and lower thoracic spine, the conventional Wiltse approach necessi...
From May 2018 to April 2022, 60 patients with spinal fractures in the middle and lower thoracic vertebrae (T5-12) were enrolled in this study. Thirty patients underwent surgery using the modified Wilt...
Compared to the traditional posterior approach, the modified Wiltse approach demonstrated significant advantages in operation time, intraoperative blood loss, length of incision, postoperative ambulat...
We propose a modification of the Wiltse approach for the middle and lower thoracic vertebral regions, which may further minimize muscular damage and facilitate the recovery of patients who have underg...
Radiation treatment of cancers like prostate or cervix cancer requires considering nearby bone structures like vertebrae. In this work, we present and validate a novel automated method for the 3D segm...
Selection of the upper instrumented vertebra (UIV) is crucial for surgical treatment of degenerative lumbar scoliosis (DLS), given the relevance of UIV in postoperative proximal adjacent segment degen...
We included 153 consecutive patients with DLS. Quantitative measurement of HU of both sides of the vertebrae of these patients was performed on three planes of CT reconstruction for average values and...
In all 153 patients, those with UIV ≤ FCRV had a significantly lower rate of pASD (9.4% vs. 24.6%, P = 0.011). The difference between HU of the left and right sides of the FCRV (dF) could range from c...
Selection of UIV ≤ FCRV can significantly reduce the risk of pASD for patients with DLS with dF ≥ 5. Trial Registration Not applicable, since this is an observational study....
We present a rare case of a male child in middle childhood who presented to the emergency department with neck pain, neck deformity, low-grade fever, breathing difficulty and swallowing difficulty. Th...
The study's objective was to assess the effect of the screw insertion depth into fractured vertebrae in treating thoracolumbar fractures....
This was a retrospective analysis of 92 patients with thoracolumbar fractures from December 2018 to February 2020. Patients had AO type A2, A3 thoracolumbar fractures. The patients were divided into t...
Compared with the preoperative data, the postoperative clinical and radiographic findings were significantly different in both groups, But no significant difference between the two groups at 1 week. A...
A longer screw provides greater grip on the fractured vertebral body and stronger support to the vertebral plate. The optimal screw placement depth exceeds 60% of the vertebral body length on the late...
Hemothorax occurs in approx. 0.4% of all chest injury patients, but hemothorax due to a thoracic vertebral fracture is rare....
A 76-year-old Japanese man was transported to our hospital for right hemothorax due to a car accident. We performed emergency hemostasis surgery and tried to stop the bleeding by several methods, but ...
It is important to be aware that a fractured vertebra can damage the aorta's arterial branch and follow a severe course....
Despite a 15% misplacement rate of screws in idiopathic scoliosis surgery, little is known about the relationship between pedicles and nerve structures in the entire thoracic curve. This study aimed t...
Physiological thoracic kyphosis (TK) allows sagittal balance of human body. Unlike lumbar lordosis (LL), TK has been relatively neglected in the literature. EOS is an imaging technique employing high-...
EOS images of 455 patients without spinal anomalies were retrospectively assessed for TK (T1- T12), upper thoracic kyphosis (UTK, T1-T5), lower thoracic kyphosis (LTK, T5-T12), LL (L1-S1) and pelvic i...
The mean age of patients was 28.3 ± 19.2 years and 302 (66.4%) of them were females. The mean TK, UTK and LTK was 45.5° ± 9.3, 16 ± 7.4° and 29.7° ± 8.9, respectively. The mean UTK in people under 40 ...
If EOS technology is available, the above linear regression model could be used to estimate TK based upon information on age, sex, LL and LTK. Alternatively, TK could be estimated by adding to LTK 17....
The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of the level of upper instrumented vertebra (UIV) in frail patients undergoing surgery for adult spine deformity (ASD)....
Patients with adult spinal deformity who had undergone T9-to-pelvis fusion were stratified using the ASD-Modified Frailty Index into not frail, frail, and severely frail categories. ASD was defined as...
A total of 477 patients were included (mean age 60.3 years (SD 14.9), mean BMI 27.5 kg/m...
Frail patients are at risk of a poor outcome after surgery for adult spinal deformity due to their comorbidities. Although a definitively prescriptive upper instrumented vertebra remains elusive, thes...
Chest compressions, used in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), cause rib and sternum fractures in around 79% and 54% of patients, respectively. Spinal fractures resulting from CPR are far rarer. We ...
