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Swespine: the Swedish spine register
IntroductionSwespine, the Swedish National Spine Register, has existed for 20 years and is in general use within the country since over 10 years...
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Predictors of improvement in quality of life and pain relief in lumbar spinal stenosis relative to patient age: a study based on the Spine Tango registry
BackgroundAn open decompression is the most common treatment for lumbar spinal canal stenosis (LSS), even in the elderly. However, it is not clear...
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Spine Tango annual report 2012
PurposeSince the Spine Tango registry was founded over a decade ago it has become established internationally. An annual report has been produced...
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Synthesis of the 19th ArgoSpine Symposium
After a short introduction of the meeting by the President 2015, Wilco Peul, the opening lecture was delivered by Bart Koes, who dealt with Health...
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Five-year follow-up of total disc replacement compared to fusion: a randomized controlled trial
PurposeTo evaluate long-term clinical results of lumbar total disc replacement (TDR) compared with posterior lumbar fusion.
MethodsThis prospective...
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Patient outcomes after laminotomy, hemilaminectomy, laminectomy and laminectomy with instrumented fusion for spinal canal stenosis: a propensity score-based study from the Spine Tango registry
PurposeTo compare patient outcomes and complication rates after different decompression techniques or instrumented fusion (IF) in lumbar spinal...
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Cerebrospinal fluid leakage after elective disc surgery
For patients undergoing elective disc herniation surgery the risk to experience a dural tear is somewhere around 1% both for the cervical and the...
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Dural lesions in decompression for lumbar spinal stenosis: incidence, risk factors and effect on outcome
IntroductionDecompression for lumbar spinal stenosis is one of the most frequent operations on the spine today. The most common complication seems to...
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Cost effectiveness of disc prosthesis versus lumbar fusion in patients with chronic low back pain: randomized controlled trial with 2-year follow-up
This randomized controlled health economic study assesses the cost-effectiveness of the concept of total disc replacement (TDR)...
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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...