Robot-assisted spine surgery has recently emerged as a viable tool to enable less invasive
and higher precision surgery. The first-ever spine robot, the SpineAssist (Mazor Robotics …

Purpose Over 4.83 million spine surgery procedures are performed annually around the
world. With the considerable caseload and the precision needed to achieve optimal spinal …

Study Design. Retrospective review of a prospective cohort. Objective. To determine the
incidence, causes, and risk factors for 30-day unplanned readmissions after lumbar spine …

Adult spinal deformity (ASD) has gained significant attention over the past decade with
improvements in diagnostic tools, classification schemes, and surgical technique. The …

Objective Various computer-based guidance systems have been devised to reduce costly
screw-related complications, yet their clinical effectiveness has never been comparatively …

OBJECTIVE Nonhome discharge and unplanned readmissions represent important cost
drivers following spinal fusion. The authors sought to utilize different machine learning …

Study Design. Retrospective cohort study of the American College of Surgeons National
Surgical Quality Improvement Program database from 2005 to 2010 that included 1861 …

Background The rate of cervical spinal fusion has been increasing significantly. However,
there is a paucity of literature describing trends based on surgical approach using complete …

Fusion surgery for lumbar degenerative disc disease: still more questions than answers -
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Purpose The effect of paraspinal muscles atrophy and fat infiltration (FI) on the complications
of spinal surgery has not been established. Methods A review of the literature was …