-
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.
-
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.
-
Spinal Anesthesia in Infants Undergoing Urology Surgery
A Massachusetts General Hospital team has developed a safe alternative to general anesthesia for infants having outpatient pediatric urology surgery.
-
Body Composition Influences Risk of Survival After Surgery for Spinal Metastases
Elie Massaad, MD, MMSc, John H. Shin, MD, and colleagues found that body composition analysis of routinely obtained presurgical CT scans, performed by an unsupervised machine learning–based system, was superior to measurement of sarcopenia alone for predicting mortality after surgery for spinal metastases.
-
Two Mass General Research Groups Share Resources, Lab Space and a Vision for the Future
Massachusetts General Hospital's Foot and Ankle Research and Innovation Lab (FARIL) and the SORG Research Group have combined their diverse, international teams to conduct clinical research and develop medical devices and AI-based clinical decision support tools for use in the field of orthopedic surgery and beyond.
-
Web Tool Predicts Six-Week Survival After Spinal Metastasis Treatment With Surgery or Radiation
Based on a study of 4,304 patients from five institutions, Aditya Karhade, MD, MBA, Joseph Schwab, MD, MS, and colleagues developed and externally validated a model for predicting six-week mortality after surgery or radiation therapy for spinal metastases. It's been incorporated into an open-access web calculator.
Spine Contributors
-
Joseph H. Schwab, MD, MS
Chief, Orthopaedic Spine Surgery, Director, Spine Oncology & Co-Director, Stephen L. Harris Chordoma Center, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Two Mass General Research Groups Share Resources, Lab Space and a Vision for the Future -
Kevin Andrew Raskin, MD
Chief, Orthopaedic Oncology Service, Program Director, Musculoskeletal Oncology Fellowship Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Nutritional, Physiological Factors Affect Wound Infection After Surgery for Lower-Extremity Soft Tissue Sarcoma -
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 -
Thomas D. Cha, MD, MBA
Director, MGH/BWH Orthopaedic Spine Surgery Fellowship Program, Assistant Chief, Orthopaedic Spine Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Upper and Lower Cervical Spine Regions Move Differently During Head Rotation