1. Minimum of 10-year follow-up of V-rod technique in lumbar spondylolysis
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Rui Pinto, Rui Matos, Vitorino Veludo, Manuel A.V. Ribeiro da Silva, Daniela Linhares, Pedro Cacho Rodrigues, and Nuno Neves
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Spondylolysis ,Lumbar vertebrae ,Overweight ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Lumbar ,medicine ,Humans ,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine ,Prospective Studies ,Child ,Survival rate ,030222 orthopedics ,Lumbar Vertebrae ,business.industry ,Minimal clinically important difference ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Internal Fixators ,Spondylolisthesis ,Surgery ,Spinal Fusion ,Treatment Outcome ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Female ,Neurosurgery ,medicine.symptom ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Follow-Up Studies - Abstract
To describe and analyze the use of the V-rod technique described by Gillet to repair spondylolysis in both early and late postoperative periods. Patients submitted to surgical correction of lumbar spondylolysis with a V-rod system were selected upon exclusion of adjacent disk degenerative changes and high-grade spondylolisthesis. A preoperative clinical (ODI and VAS) and radiological evaluation was performed, along with assessments on the early (clinical evaluation—up to 1 year) and late (clinical and radiological—at least 10 years) postoperative periods. Twenty-two patients were included, 21 with L5 spondylolysis. Fifty percent had grade I spondylolisthesis. A significant decrease in ODI and VAS was observed from pre- to early and late post-op evaluation (all p
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- 2018
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