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Technologies and innovations to manage spine degeneration

Guest Editors:
Pongsthorn Chanplakorn:
Mahidol University, Thailand
Xing Du: First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, China
John Houten: Maimonides Medical Center, United States
Koroush Kabir: Helios University Hospital Wuppertal, Germany
Hyeun-Sung Kim: Gangnam Nanoori Hospital, South Korea

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This Collections welcomed content which pioneered and utilized innovative techniques and technologies to diagnosis and manage degenerative spinal disorders.

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Pongsthorn Chanplakorn, Mahidol University, Thailand

Dr Pongsthorn Chanplakorn MD. graduated from Faculty of Medicine Siriraj hospital, then completed his residency training in the Department of Orthopaedic Ramathibodi hospital Mahidol University, Thailand. He finished his fellowship training in spinal surgery from Tohoku University Sendai, Japan. Dr Chanplakorn has special interest in the management of spinal metastasis and primary spinal tumours. He has published research in many fields in Orthopaedic surgery and developed new findings advancing the safety and effectiveness of clinical practice.

Xing Du, First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, China

Dr Xing Du is an Orthopaedic surgeon of the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China. He obtained his doctor's degree in Orthopaedics from Chongqing Medical University, and completed his orthopaedic surgery training at the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University. Dr Du' s clinical interest is in spinal surgery, particularly in the surgical treatment of spinal infection (tuberculosis) and spinal tumour. He acts as Editorial Board Member at BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders.

John Houten, Maimonides Medical Center, United States

Dr Houten is a leader in advanced image-guided and minimally invasive techniques to more safely and accurately treat conditions needing spinal surgery. He graduated from the New York University School of Medicine with alpha omega alpha honours and completed a neurosurgery residency and spinal surgery fellowship at New York University Medical Center. He practises in New York City where he serves as Professor of Clinical Neurosurgery at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell and Director of Spinal Neurosurgery and Neurotrauma at Maimonides Medical Center and has authored more than 50 pee-reviewed papers and serves on the Editorial Board of the journals World Neurosurgery and BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. He lives in the Midwood section of Brooklyn with his wife, Dr Gila Weinstein, a plastic surgeon with whom he has collaborated on number publications describing specialised closure techniques for spinal surgery.

Koroush Kabir, Helios University Hospital Wuppertal, Germany

Dr Kabir is medical director and chief consultant surgeon at the Center of Trauma Surgery, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine in Helios University Hospital Wuppertal and Associate Professor at University Bonn, Germany. He has a wide scope of surgical education with special clinical focus in spine and pelvic surgery, geriatric traumatology with special interest in periprosthetic fractures and polytrauma. His main clinical research interest is minimal invasive and computer navigated surgery of spine and pelvis. In his opinion, the new technology with different digital tools can help physicians to achieve patient specific outcome-improvement in the field of orthopaedics and trauma surgery.

Hyeun-Sung Kim, Gangnam Nanoori Hospital, South Korea

Dr Hyeun-Sung Kim is a Neurosurgery Specialist, and the Director of the Nanoori Hospital Gangnam. Dr Kim is a Section Editor of World Neurosurgery, Neurospine, IJSS, an Academic Editor of Medicine, and an Associate Editor of BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. Dr Kim had served in the past as President of KOSESS (Korean Research Society of Endoscopic Spine Surgery), and is currently Faculty of World Spinal Column Society.

About the collection

The fields of musculoskeletal radiology, orthopedic surgery and physical therapy have contributed considerably to improve the safety and efficacy of spinal procedures. Examples include minimally-invasive spine surgery and magnetically-controlled rods in scoliosis, and these advances bode well for the future treatment of spinal deformity and degeneration and further improve patients’ quality of life. 

This Collections welcomed content which pioneered and utilized innovative techniques and technologies to diagnosis and manage degenerative spinal disorders.

  1. Patients surgically treated for lumbar spinal stenosis or cervical radiculopathy report improvement in approximately two out of three cases. Advancements in Machine Learning and the utility of large datasets h...

    Authors: Eric Brisby Enger, Ludvig Valentin-Askman, Olle Hägg, Peter Fritzell and Catharina Parai
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:654
  2. The traditional surgical procedures for upper lumbar disc herniation (ULDH) usually lead to frequent complications. We aim to investigate the clinical efficacy of the unilateral biportal endoscopy (UBE) techni...

    Authors: Rongxue Shao, Weibin Du, Wei Zhang, Wei Cheng, Chengyue Zhu, Jiaming Liang, Jun Yue and Hao Pan
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:367
  3. To investigate the effect of bone cement on the vertebral body and biomechanical properties in percutaneous cement discoplasty (PCD) for degenerative lumbar disc disease.

    Authors: Cunheng Yang, Fumin Wang, Xingxing Huang, Hao Zhang, Shengbo Shi, Fangjun Meng Zhang, Junxiao Gao and Xiaobing Yu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:285
  4. To develop and evaluate a deep learning model based on chest CT that achieves favorable performance on opportunistic osteoporosis screening using the lumbar 1 + lumbar 2 vertebral bodies fusion feature images,...

    Authors: Jing Pan, Peng-cheng Lin, Shen-chu Gong, Ze Wang, Rui Cao, Yuan Lv, Kun Zhang and Lin Wang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:176
  5. Both instrumented and stand-alone lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) have been widely used to treat lumbar degenerative disease. However, it remains controversial as whether posterior internal fixation is ...

    Authors: Lianghai Jiang, Lantao Liu, Liang Dong, Zhengwei Xu, Xiaobo Zhang and Lixiong Qian
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:108
  6. Spinal subdural hematoma (SSH) is a rare cause of compression of the neutral elements of the spinal cord. However, little is known about the presentation of acute SSH after lumbar spine surgery. The reason for...

    Authors: Jiye Lu, Wei Zhang, Guoqiang Jiang, Kefeng Luo, Kaiwen Cai, Kai Zhang and Bin Lu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:939
  7. Purpose This study aims to explore the clinical efficacy of laminospinous process ligament complex reimplantation combined with mini-titanium plate fixation in the treatment of thoracolumbar intraspinal tumors.

    Authors: Guohua Dai, Min Zhang, Weiliang Su, Jiaqing Zhao, Xiankai Yu, Zhaozhong Sun, Yongfeng Dou and Xiaopeng Geng
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:873
  8. Unilateral laminotomy for bilateral decompression (ULBD) is a MIS surgical technique that offers safe and effective decompression of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) with a long-term resolution of symptoms. Advant...

    Authors: Siegfried J. Adelhoefer, Jessica Berger, Catherine Mykolajtchuk, Jaskeerat Gujral, Blake I. Boadi, Brian Fiani and Roger Härtl
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:860
  9. Low back pain is a widely prevalent symptom and the foremost cause of disability on a global scale. Although various degenerative imaging findings observed on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have been linked ...

    Authors: Babak Saravi, Alisia Zink, Sara Ülkümen, Sebastien Couillard-Despres, Jakob Wollborn, Gernot Lang and Frank Hassel
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:791
  10. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the clinical and radiographic outcomes of oblique lumbar interbody fusion (OLIF) to perform in L4/5 degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis (DLS) patients who diagnosed w...

    Authors: Renjie Li, Yijie Liu, Yi Zhu, Minhua Lu and Weimin Jiang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:760
  11. To investigate the risk factors for new vertebral compression fractures (NVCFs) after percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP) for osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (OVCFs) and to create a nomogram to predict...

    Authors: Yiming Ma, Qi Lu, Xuezhi Wang, Yalei Wang, Feng Yuan and Hongliang Chen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:728
  12. Cervical stiffness, coronal imbalance and limited hip movement all play crucial roles in designing the corrective surgery for ankylosing spondylitis-related thoracolumbar kyphosis (AS-TLK). However, a comprehe...

    Authors: Wei Zhang, Wen Yin, Xilong Cui, Zihao Chai, Guohui Zheng, Ya Ding, Hongliang Wang, Yunlei Zhai and Haiyang Yu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:723
  13. In recent years, with improved living standards, adolescent obesity has been increasingly studied. The incidence of lumbar disc herniation (LDH) in obese adolescents is increasing yearly. No clinical studies h...

    Authors: Lianjun Qu, Yongli Wang, Fei Wang and Songou Zhang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:710
  14. To compare the clinical efficacy of surgical treatment for multilevel cervical spondylotic myelopathy (MCSM) between the hybrid procedure, posterior endoscopic decompression (PED) combined with anterior cervic...

    Authors: Lei Guo, Jiaqi Li, Fei Zhang, Yapeng Sun and Wei Zhang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:578
  15. Accurately predicting the occurrence of imminent new vertebral fractures (NVFs) in patients with osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (OVCFs) undergoing vertebral augmentation (VA) is challenging with ...

    Authors: Yang Jiang, Jinhui Cai, Yurong Zeng, Haoyi Ye, Tingqian Yang, Zhifeng Liu and Qingyu Liu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:472
  16. Management of high-grade spondylolisthesis (HGS) remains challenging. Spinopelvic fixation such as iliac screw (IS) was developed to deal with HGS. However concerns regarding constructs prominence and increase...

    Authors: Yao Zhang, Jipeng Song, Yuzheng Lu, Meng Yi, Wancheng Lin, Mingtao Yao, Zhengning Luo, Genai Zhang and Lixiang Ding
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:451
  17. The commonly used treatments of adult degeneration scoliosis (ADS) were posterior long segment screw fixation with osteotomies. Recently, lateral lumbar intervertebral fusion combined two-stage posterior screw...

    Authors: Dingli Xu, Kaifeng Gan, Xuchen Zhao, Leidong Lian, Xudong Hu, Ni Luo and Weihu Ma
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:387
  18. This retrospective cohort study aimed to compare the clinical and radiological outcomes between two treatment strategies focusing on non-osteoporotic AOSpine-type A3 fractures of the thoracolumbar spine with n...

    Authors: Xin Song, Donglin Ren, Feng Zhang, Shuai Han, Desheng Wu and Jian Wang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:385
  19. Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory disease involving the sacroiliac joint and axial spine. AS may render the ankylosed spine prone to trauma and cause an increased frequency of associated ep...

    Authors: Dae Kyun Kim and Seok Won Kim
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:323
  20. Restoration of sagittal balance is a crucial consideration in posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) surgery and adverse postoperative outcomes are associated with inadequate restoration of sagittal alignmen...

    Authors: Lin Han, Hongdao Ma, Qisheng Li, Jincan Yuan, Haisong Yang, Yuchen Qin and Xuhua Lu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:304

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:403

  21. To evaluate the correlation between the degree of preoperative contralateral foraminal stenosis(CFS) and the incidence of contralateral root symptoms after unilateral transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion(TLI...

    Authors: Wenjie Lu, Lingqiao Wu, Yunlin Chen, Xudong Hu, Chaoyue Ruan, Yang Wang, Weihu Ma and Weiyu Jiang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:291
  22. Currently, hidden blood loss (HBL) has been paid more and more attention by spine surgeons. Simultaneously, it has been the effort of spine surgeons to explore more advantages of minimally invasive surgery. Mo...

    Authors: Xinle Huang, Wenkai Wang, Guangxing Chen, Xiangchen Guan, Yue Zhou and Yu Tang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:274
  23. To retrospectively compare the clinical and radiological outcomes of staged lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) combined with posterior instrumented fusion(PIF)with PIF alone for the treatment of adult dege...

    Authors: Oujie Lai, Hao Li, Qixing Chen, Yong Hu and Yunling Chen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:260
  24. Degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis (DLSS) is the most common spine disease in the elderly population. It is usually associated with lumbar spine joints/or ligaments degeneration. Machine learning technique is...

    Authors: Janan Abbas, Malik Yousef, Natan Peled, Israel Hershkovitz and Kamal Hamoud
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:218
  25. The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility of using the Isobar TTL system and posterolateral fusion in a two-segment hybrid fixation approach, combined with spinal decompression, for treating mil...

    Authors: Jianbin Guan, Tao Liu, Xing Yu, Ningning Feng, Guozheng Jiang, Wenhao Li, He Zhao and Yongdong Yang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:217
  26. In the treatment of unstable atlas fractures using the combined anterior–posterior approach or the posterior monoaxial screw-rod system, factors such as severe trauma or complex surgical procedures still need ...

    Authors: Kun Yang, He-gang Niu, Hui Tao, Chang Liu, Yun Cao, Wei Li, Jing-jing Zhang, Cai-liang Shen and Yin-shun Zhang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:108
  27. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between surgical segment mobility and fatty infiltration of the adjacent segment paravertebral muscles in patients with single-segment lumbar degen...

    Authors: Jianbin Guan, Dingyan Zhao, Tao Liu, Xing Yu, Ningning Feng, Guozheng Jiang, Wenhao Li, Kaitan Yang, He Zhao and Yongdong Yang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:28
  28. The aging of China's population has led to an increase in the incidence rate of osteoporosis, which indirectly increases the risk of OVCF in osteoporosis patients. Low back pain is the main symptom of OVCF, an...

    Authors: Wei Wang, Yi Liu, Hao Wan, LiangPing Zeng, ZongLi Peng, DanDan Yang and Kun Tian
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:11
  29. To compare the clinical outcomes of patients with lumbar disc herniation treated with robot-assisted percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy (r-PELD) or conventional PELD under fluoroscopy guidance (f-PELD).

    Authors: Zongjiang Wang, Ying Tan, Kai Fu, Zhaowu Meng and Liang Wang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2022 23:1144
  30. This study reports on the surgical technique used and clinical outcomes obtained during the treatment of basilar invagination (BI) without atlantoaxial dislocation (AAD) through the correction of the clivus ca...

    Authors: Zhe Hou, Tao Fan, Wayne Fan, Qiang Jian and Yinqian Wang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2022 23:1138
  31. Early and accurate assessment of lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD) is very important to therapeutic strategy. This study aims to correlate and compare the performances of T1ρ, T2 and T2* mapping f...

    Authors: Li Yang, Cong Sun, Tao Gong, Quanlin Li, Xin Chen and Xinjuan Zhang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2022 23:1135
  32. To evaluate the early clinical effect of oblique lumbar interbody fusion with lateral screw fixation and percutaneous endoscopic transforaminal discectomy (OLIF-PETD) in the treatment of lumbar disc herniation...

    Authors: Chen Deng, Haoyu Feng, Xun Ma, Chen Chen, Jun Mei and Lin Sun
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2022 23:1104
  33. Previous studies have investigated the imaging changes of the paravertebral muscles (PVM) in patients with degenerative lumbar scoliosis (DLS); however, most of these studies focused on the apical vertebra (AV...

    Authors: Hongru Xie, Qin Zhang, Jianan Liu, Yinchuan He, Zepei Zhang, Lin Meng and Jun Miao
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2022 23:1074
  34. Accurate puncture and localization are critical for percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic lumbar discectomy surgery. However, several punctures are often required, followed by X-ray fluoroscopy, which can inc...

    Authors: Xincheng Fan, Qiting He, Chaofan Yi, Wei Zhao, Derui Xu, Guoqing Peng, Feng Liu and Lei Cheng
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2022 23:1067
  35. Posterior instrumented fusion is the most widely accepted surgical treatment for spinal stenosis and disc herniation. However, fusion can affect daily activities due to lumbar stiffness. In recent years, dynam...

    Authors: Jianbin Guan, Tao Liu, Ningning Feng, Guozheng Jiang, Wenhao Li, Kaitan Yang, He Zhao, Yongdong Yang and Xing Yu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2022 23:998
  36. The trabecular bone score (TBS) is reported to be an independent predictor of fracture risk in patients with primary or secondary osteoporosis. However, there have been few reports on its use in the Japanese p...

    Authors: Yasuyuki Omichi, Noriaki Mima, Ryo Okada, Keizo Wada, Masatoshi Morimoto and Koichi Sairyo
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2022 23:976
  37. Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is a common degenerative spinal condition in older adults associated with disability, diminished quality of life, and substantial healthcare costs. Individual symptoms and needs va...

    Authors: Christine Comer, Carlo Ammendolia, Michele C. Battié, André Bussières, Jeremy Fairbank, Andrew Haig, Markus Melloh, Anthony Redmond, Michael J. Schneider, Christopher J. Standaert, Christy Tomkins-Lane, Esther Williamson and Arnold YL. Wong
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2022 23:550

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