We carried out MRI studies of 74 patients with end-plate and vertebral bone-marrow changes
associated with degenerative lumbar disc disease. Abnormalities were classified into type …

… Daily subcutaneous injection of t eriparatide significantly reduced the incidence of pedicle
screw loosening after surgery compared with that in bisphosphonatetreated women and …

Background One of the sources of knee pain in osteoarthritis (OA) is believed to be related to
local chronic inflammation of the knee joints, which involves the production of inflammatory …

Background The exact mechanism of knee osteoarthritis (OA)-associated pain is unclear,
whereas mixed evidence of inflammatory pain and neuropathic pain has been noted. We …

Study Design. Prospective trial. Objective. To examine the clinical efficacy of teriparatide for
bone union after instrumented lumbar posterolateral fusion using local bone grafting in …

Study Design. Prospective, multicenter international cohort. Objective. To evaluate outcomes
of surgical decompression for cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) at a global level. …

Purpose Pain from osteoarthritis (OA) is generally classified as nociceptive (inflammatory).
Animal models of knee OA have shown that sensory nerve fibers innervating the knee are …

Purpose Surgery for lumbar spinal degeneration disease is widely performed. While posterior
decompression and fusion are popular, anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) is also …

… For intergroup comparison of means, we used a t test with Welch’s correction. Data are
presented as the median when the observations in a sample of data are ranks. The Mann-…

Object Because the authors encountered 4 cases of hardware migration following
transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion, a retrospective study was conducted to identify factors …