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Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery: Enhancing Clinical Outcomes
Less invasive spine procedures can reduce adverse events and improve clinical outcomes, taking advantage of new imaging technologies and protocols.
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Featured
Infection Care Costs after THA Greatly Exceed Expectations
Care costs to society calculated for periprosthetic joint infections after total hip arthroplasty are over three times prior cost estimates.
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Using Data and AI to Predict Patient Outcomes in Spinal Osteomies
In this video, John H. Shin, MD, discusses his research on the use of innovative technologies to help us predict which patients will benefit from complex spinal osteotomies for deformity, which has a very high complication rate.
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Adjuvant Radiation Improves Local Control of Sacral Chordoma
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have determined that combining surgical resection with adjuvant radiation is associated with better local relapse-free survival of patients with sacral chordoma.
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New Scale Allows Grading of Cord Compression From Spinal Epidural Abscess
Orthopedic surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed the first detailed system for grading spinal cord compression secondary to spinal epidural abscess, which could allow greater consistency in reporting associations between cord compression and neurological deficits.
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Efforts to Standardize Spinal Stenosis Treatment Should Target Certain Patient Groups
A retrospective study at Massachusetts General Hospital shows that even within a single institution, there is wide variation in the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis, and efforts to improve quality should focus on three specific patient groups.
Spine contributors
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Joseph H. Schwab, MD
Chief, Orthopaedic Spine Surgery, Director, Spine Oncology & Co-Director, Stephen L. Harris Chordoma Center, Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
New Scale Allows Grading of Cord Compression From Spinal Epidural Abscess
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Kevin Andrew Raskin, MD
Acting Chief, Orthopaedic Oncology Service, Program Director, Musculoskeletal Oncology Fellowship Program, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Analysis of Metastatic Spine Disease Questionnaires
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Saechin Kim, MD, PhD
Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Adult Spinal Reconstruction Orthopaedic Surgeon, Instructor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery: Enhancing Clinical Outcomes
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Thomas D. Cha, MD, MBA
Assistant Chief, Orthopaedic Spine Center, Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Efforts to Standardize Spinal Stenosis Treatment Should Target Certain Patient Groups
Orthopaedic Care at Mass General
At Mass General, our world-class physicians and surgeons treat the full spectrum of musculoskeletal conditions—from sprains and strains on the athletic field to limb sparing oncology procedures; from carpal tunnel syndrome to complex spinal reconstruction.Resource links
