16/04/2024 -
Patients suffering from osteoporotic fractures often require effective fixation and subsequent bone repair. However, the currently available materials are functionally limited and often fail to...
10/04/2024 -
Many surgical tasks require three or more tools working together, where a hands-free interface could extend a surgeon's actions to control a third surgical tool. However, most current...
10/04/2024 -
Objectives: Early identification of mechanical complications of total knee arthroplasties is of great importance to minimize the complexity and iatrogenicity of revision surgeries. There is...
09/04/2024 -
Wearing robotic gloves has become increasingly crucial for hand rehabilitation in stroke patients. However, traditional robotic gloves can exert additional pressure on the hand, such as prolonged...
09/04/2024 -
The increasing necessity for early detection of knee injuries to prevent extensive ligament damage and costly treatments has prompted the exploration of wearable and portable electromagnetic (EM)...
04/04/2024 -
In the medical field, several therapies result in surgery. Most pregnancies terminate with a caesarean section. Over the past few years, the number of caesarean deliveries has dramatically...
27/03/2024 -
Novel design solutions for dedicated portable brain positron emission tomography systems with improved performance facilitate emergency and interventional image-guided surgery as well as advanced...
22/03/2024 -
It is well known that large bone defects present significant challenge in orthopedic surgery, especially critical-sized defects, which can cause a trauma to the patient. The current treatment for...
11/03/2024 -
Prosthetic implants, particularly hip endoprostheses, often lead to stress shielding because of a mismatch in compliance between the bone and the implant material, adversely affecting the...
26/02/2024 -
Introduction: In lumbar degenerative disk diseases (DDDs), we include a wide range of lumbar pathologies. Lumbar spinal stenosis with or without spondylolisthesis is a...
19/02/2024 -
Introduction: Growing rods (GRs) are used to treat early-onset scoliosis (EOS) recalcitrant to bracing and casting. Proximal anchor pullout, a known complication of GR...
19/02/2024 -
Background: Bone marrow aspirate (BMA), when combined with graft substitutes, has long been introduced as a promising alternative to iliac crest bone graft in spinal...
22/01/2024 -
Introduction: In lumbar degenerative disk diseases (DDDs), we include a wide range of lumbar pathologies. Lumbar spinal stenosis with or without spondylolisthesis is a...
22/01/2024 -
Vertically unstable pelvic injuries associated with sacroiliac disruption are challenging. Although percutaneous iliosacral fixation using two screws at S1 vertebral body has been shown...
05/12/2023 -
CONCLUSIONS: Insertion of S2AIS from the midpoint between the S1 and S2 dorsal foramen compared with the entry at distal and lateral to S1 foramen enables insertion of longer screws with low...
16/11/2023 -
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the results and intraoperative or postoperative complications of primary total hip arthroplasty (THA) using a contemporary tapered wedge titanium...
18/10/2023 -
Background: Vertebral osteomyelitis after spine instrumentation surgery (pVOM) is a rare complication. Most cases of infection occur early after surgery that involve skin...
17/10/2023 -
The average age of our population is increasing, resulting in a high incidence of chronic degenerative knee pathologies. Several treatment options, including surgical procedures are available to...
08/08/2023 -
Rigid fixation is mostly used in thoracolumbar spine surgery, which restricts the thoracolumbar spine segments moving and is not conducive to postoperative rehabilitation. We developed an...
24/07/2023 -
Objective: Robot-assisted pedicle screw placement in spinal fusion has been well studied. However, few studies have evaluated robot-assisted sacroiliac joint (SIJ) fusion....
27/03/2023 -
Background: Sacroiliac joint (SIJ) painful dysfunction is a common source of low back pain (LBP). Several surgical treatment options for SIJ fusion were described. A...