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Patrick Thornley, Jennifer C. Urquhart, Andrew Glennie, Raja Rampersaud, Charles Fisher, Edward Abraham, Raphaele Charest-Morin, Nicolas Dea, Brian K. Kwon, Neil Manson, Hamilton Hall, Scott Paquette, John Street, Fawaz Siddiqi, Parham Rasoulinejad, Christopher S. Bailey
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Zi-fang Zhang, Deng-bin Qi, Tian-hao Wang, Chun-guo Wang, Zheng Wang, Yan Wang, Guo-quan Zheng
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Bailey O'Connor, Caroline E. Drolet, Jean-Christophe A. Leveque, Venu Nemani, Katie L. Krause, Michael Dorsi, Samuel Schroerlucke, Jesse Shen, Philip K. Louie
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Jeanne Loubeyre, Emmanuelle Ferrero, Mohamed Mokhtar Jmal, Pierre Guigui, Marc Khalife
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Jingye Wu, Tenghui Ge, Ning Zhang, Jianing Li, Wei Tian, Yuqing Sun
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Summary: The aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation between sagittal and spinopelvic alignment and preoperative patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis (DLS) with spinal stenosis. The study found that sagittal and spinopelvic malalignment do not appear to significantly influence baseline PROs in patients with DLS.
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Summary: This study analyzed parameters of patients with different types of double-level DLS and found that anterior type patients had more severe symptoms, higher incidence of neurologic symptoms, and significantly higher sagittal spinopelvic parameters compared to other types.
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(2021)
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Min-soo Cho, Eun-Min Seo
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(2022)