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Patient Selection for Spine Surgery: Preoperative Optimization

Summary of Key Points Patients who are medically optimized before major spine surgery demonstrate improvements in self-reported satisfaction scores, decreased postoperative complications, and decreased hospital length of stay. There are several patient-specific, modifiable risk factors that could be targets for…

Postoperative Spinal Disorders—Cervical

Summary of Key Points The cervical spine is the most mobile region of the spine, leading to a propensity for instability in the setting of pathologies or iatrogenic destabilization during corrective surgeries. Disruption of key structures, including ligaments, vertebral bodies,…

Subaxial Cervical Spine CT

Introduction Computed tomography (CT) scans have become the mainstay modality for screening patients in the setting of cervical trauma and identifying fractures in the subaxial cervical spine. High-resolution CT imaging, in particular, has become the primary radiologic means for screening…