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Featured
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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PET/MRI Reproducibly Discriminates Between Individuals With and Without Chronic Low Back Pain
Angel Torrado-Carvajal, PhD, and Marco L. Loggia, PhD, of the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, and colleagues have reproduced and expanded on earlier work showing that a thalamic neuroinflammation signal on PET/MRI distinguishes patients with chronic low back pain from healthy controls.
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Timing of Lumbar Spinal Fusion Relative to Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty Affects Complications
Postoperative instability rates are lower when patients undergo revision total hip arthroplasty before lumbar spinal fusion than when the order is reversed, according to a study by Christian Klemt, PhD, Young-Min Kwon, PhD, MD, and colleagues in the Bioengineering Lab of the Department of Orthopaedics.
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Case Reports: Mapping of the Thalamocortical Tract in Asleep Craniotomies
Mirela V. Simon, MD, MSc, of the Department of Neurology, William T. Curry, MD, of the Department of Neurosurgery, and colleagues have conducted the first successful electrophysiologic mapping of the thalamocortical tract during supratentorial surgery under general anesthesia in humans.
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Anterior Vertebral Tethering: A Less Invasive Option for Scoliosis Treatment
John T. Braun, MD, and Brian Grottkau, MD, orthopedic spine surgeons in the Pediatric Orthopaedics Service at MassGeneral Hospital for Children, present the Anterior Vertebral Tethering System, a minimally invasive, fusionless treatment option for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.
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
Minimal Clinically Important Differences for Lower Extremity Metastatic Surgery
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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
Minimal Clinically Important Differences for Lower Extremity Metastatic Surgery
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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
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