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On- and Offline Documentation of Spine Procedures: Spine Tango
The mainstay of patient care throughout the ages used to be intuition, psychology and charisma. The medical environment was characterised by unquestioning faith on the part of patients, while society encourage...
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Incidental durotomy in decompression for lumbar spinal stenosis: incidence, risk factors and effect on outcomes in the Spine Tango registry
The three aims of this Spine Tango registry study of patients undergoing decompression for spinal stenosis were to: report the rate of dural tear (DT) stratified by treatment centre; find factors associated wi...
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Is the duration of pre-operative conservative treatment associated with the clinical outcome following surgical decompression for lumbar spinal stenosis? A study based on the Spine Tango Registry
The incidence of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) continues to rise, with both conservative and surgical management representing options for its treatment. The timing of surgery for LSS varies from shortly after t...
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Influence of preoperative leg pain and radiculopathy on outcomes in mono-segmental lumbar total disc replacement: results from a nationwide registry
Currently, many pre-conditions are regarded as relative or absolute contraindications for lumbar total disc replacement (TDR). Radiculopathy is one among them. In Switzerland it is left to the surgeon’s discre...
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Predictors of surgical, general and follow-up complications in lumbar spinal stenosis relative to patient age as emerged from the Spine Tango Registry
Published opinions regarding the outcomes and complications in older patients have a broad spectrum and there is a disagreement whether surgery in older patients entails a higher risk. Therefore this study exa...
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Open AccessInfluence of preoperative nucleus pulposus status and radiculopathy on outcomes in mono-segmental lumbar total disc replacement: results from a nationwide registry
Currently, herniated nucleus pulposus (HNP) with radiculopathy and other preconditions are regarded as relative or absolute contraindications for lumbar total disc replacement (TDR). In Switzerland it is left ...
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Development of a documentation instrument for the conservative treatment of spinal disorders in the International Spine Registry, Spine Tango
Spine Tango is the first and only International Spine Registry in operation to date. So far, only surgical spinal interventions have been recorded and no comparable structured and comprehensive documentation i...
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Benchmarking in the SWISSspine Registry: results of 52 Dynardi lumbar total disc replacements compared with the data pool of 431 other lumbar disc prostheses
The SWISSspine registry is the first mandatory registry of its kind in the history of Swiss orthopaedics and it follows the principle of “coverage with evidence development”. Its goal is the generation of evid...
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Spondylodiscitis in the elderly patient: clinical mid-term results and quality of life
Focusing on spondylodiscitis in elderly patients current literature does not contain much information.
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Open AccessDevelopment of a screening tool predicting the transition from acute to chronic low back pain for patients in a GP setting: Protocol of a multinational prospective cohort study
Low back pain (LBP) is by far the most prevalent and costly musculoskeletal problem in our society today. Following the recommendations of the Multinational Musculoskeletal Inception Cohort Study (MMICS) State...
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Design concepts in lumbar total disc arthroplasty
The implantation of lumbar disc prostheses based on different design concepts is widely accepted. This paper reviews currently available literature studies on the biomechanics of TDA in the lumbar spine, and i...
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The international spine registry SPINE TANGO: status quo and first results
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The international spine registry SPINE TANGO: status quo and first results
With an official life time of over 5 years, Spine Tango can meanwhile be considered the first international spine registry. In this paper we present an overview of frequency statistics of Spine Tango for demon...
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Open AccessDifferences across health care systems in outcome and cost-utility of surgical and conservative treatment of chronic low back pain: a study protocol
There is little evidence on differences across health care systems in choice and outcome of the treatment of chronic low back pain (CLBP) with spinal surgery and conservative treatment as the main options. At ...
