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Surgical assessment of the proximal thoracic curve in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis

Akillas | June 9, 2009

Panayiotis N. Smyrnis1, 2 , Nicholas Sekouris3 and George Papadopoulos4 (1)  5th Orthopedic Department, KAT Hospital, Athens, Greece (2)  3, Neofytou Douka str., 10674 Athens, Greece (3)  Nuffield Orthopaedic Center, Oxford, UK (4)  Division of Statistics, Maths and Computing, Science Department, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece Received: 15 April 2008  Revised: 27 September 2008  Accepted: 24 January 2009  Published online: 14 February 2009 Abstract  Existing predictive signs as available in current literature [...]

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Lumbar lordosis in osteoporosis and in osteoarthritis

Akillas | June 8, 2009

Michael Papadakis1, 2 , Georgios Papadokostakis3, Konstantinos Stergiopoulos1, Nikos Kampanis2 and Pavlos Katonis1 (1)  School of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (2)  Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Foundation for Research and Technology- Hellas (IACM-FORTH), PO Box 1385, 71110 Heraklion, Crete, Greece (3)  Department of Orthopedics, University Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Crete, Greece Received: 28 March 2008  Revised: 30 September 2008  Accepted: 25 November 2008  Published online: 17 December 2008 Abstract  The [...]

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Does Wallis implant reduce adjacent segment degeneration above lumbosacral instrumented fusion?

Akillas | June 8, 2009

Panagiotis Korovessis1 , Thomas Repantis1, Spyros Zacharatos1 and Andreas Zafiropoulos1 (1)  Orthopaedic Department, General Hospital “Agios Andreas”, 1 Tsertidou str., 26224 Patras, Greece Received: 26 July 2008  Revised: 1 February 2009  Accepted: 28 March 2009  Published online: 23 April 2009 Abstract  Delayed complications following lumbar spine fusion may occur amongst which is adjacent segment degeneration (ASD). Although interspinous implants have been successfully used in spinal stenosis to authors’ knowledge such implants have not [...]

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