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Minimally invasive surgery for spinal fractures due to multiple myeloma
Alves, OL; Reinas, R; Kitumba, D; Pereira, LBackground: Multiple myeloma (MM) presents with spinal lesions in 60% of cases. The combination of osteolytic lesions with multifactorial osteopenia raises specific surgical treatment challenges. Minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS) could be a potential option for MM spinal lesions treatment. Objective: The objective of this study is to evaluate MISS techniques to treat patients presenting with spine fractur...
Value of Surgery and Nonsurgical Approaches for Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy...
Parthiban, J; Alves, OL; Chandrachari, KP; Ramani, P; Zileli, MOBJECTIVE: Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) has become a prevalent cause of spinal cord dysfunction among the aging population worldwide. Although great strides have been made in spine surgery in past decades, the optimal timing and surgical strategy to treat CSM have remained controversial. In this article the authors aimed to analyze the current trends in studies of CSM and to summarize the recent advanc...