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Sexual function in older adults with thoracolumbar-pelvic instrumentation

Surgeons investigated sexual function in 62 patients, 50 years and older, who had received extensive spinal–pelvic instrumentation for spinal deformity at the University of Virginia Health Center. Based on their results, ...

Surgery created May 21, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Spinal 'spacer' procedure has fewer complications, but higher risk of repeat surgery

Interspinous spacer implantation—a less-invasive alternative surgical option for spinal stenosis—has a lower complication rate than spinal fusion, reports a study in the May 1 issue of Spine.

Surgery created May 07, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0