European Spine Journal

• Controlled versus gravity-based irrigation in endoscopic spine surgery: pressure stability, thresholds, and safety implications

  Background Objective Methods Results Limitations Conclusions

• Modified spinopelvic fixation with a novel three-dimensional-printed element following total sacrectomy for patients with sacral tumours

  Objective Methods Results Conclusion

• The iLLIF score: a predictive success scoring system for indirect decompression in lateral lumbar interbody fusion

  Background Materials and methods Results Conclusion

• Preoperative hypoalbuminemia predicts early complications, mortality, and discharge disposition following surgical resection of spinal metastases: a nationwide study

  Purpose Methods Results Conclusion

• Readmission rate following surgical treatment for spinal deformity: a systematic review and meta-analysis

  Background Methods Results Conclusions

• New-onset depression following anterior cervical discectomy and fusion or cervical artificial disc replacement: a retrospective cohort study using a multi-institutional claims database

  Purpose Methods Results Conclusion

• Responsiveness and minimal clinically important changes of surface topography parameters in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis: results from the schroth exercise trial

  Introduction Methods Results Conclusion

• Comment on “prophylactic use of topical vancomycin reduces the incidence of postoperative wound infection in surgery for spinal metastases”

• Epidemiological trends of spinal diseases over 15 years in South Korea: a nationwide claims-based analysis

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• Decompression surgery with intraoperative vertebroplasty: a reduced invasiveness treatment strategy for aggressive vertebral hemangiomas

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• Does intralesional excision plus adjuvant charged- particles radiation therapy matter on local disease control and survival in the management of primary spinal tumors not eligible for en bloc resection? retrospective analysis of a cohort of 36 patients from a single institution

  Purpose Methods Results Conclusion

• A genomic structural equation modelling analysis of the shared genetic architecture of the aging spine

  Background Methods Results Conclusions

• Biomechanical differences between occipital plate and modified C1 lateral mass screw in the treatment of complex craniocervical malformations: a finite element analysis

  Background Objective Methods Results Conclusions

• Cement augmentation of pedicle screw constructs as a modifier of hardware failure risk in instrumented metastatic spine surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis

  Purpose Methods Results Conclusion

• Association of the waist-to-weight index with low back pain: a mediation analysis involving accelerated biological ageing

  Background Methods Results Conclusions