Volume 5, Issue 4

• Does VEPTR meet the expectations?

  MICHAŁ LATALSKI, MAREK FATYGA, ANDRZEJ GREGOSIEWICZ

  Early onset scoliosis with associated thoracic deformities is a difficult treatment problem. In many cases early surgery is necessary with the use of such techniques to correction of spine...

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• Adjacent segment syndrome in patients after cervical spine spondylodesis

  E. LIPIK, M. TĘSIOROWSKI, D. ZARZYCKI, P. RAJSKI

  Aim of the paper. The article presents examples of the treatment of cervical discopathy from anterior approach using intervertebral implants. Two methods of treatment were compared: arthro...

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• Occipito-cervical fusion using some types of implants – anchors in the cranio-cervical pathologies

  M. TĘSIOROWSKI, D. ZARZYCKI, E. LIPIK1, L. CIUPIK

  In this article is presented the solution of occipito-cervical stabilization with help of anchors in many different pathology of cranio-cervical junction, and they are compared with the so...

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• Endoscopic Transforaminal Discectomy for Primary Lumbar Disc Herniation – Early Results and Own Experience

  DANIEL ZARZYCKI, KRZYSZTOF ŁOKAS, ANDRZEJ SMĘTKOWSKI

  Introduction. Radicular syndrome manifested by lower limb pain and low back pain is a common clinical problem. Operative treatment usually consists of decompression with microdiscectomy fr...

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• Results of surgical treatment of spine deformities in patients with spinal muscular atrophy type II and type III

  TOMASZ POTACZEK

  Introduction. Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a group of hereditary diseases that manifests in weakness and flaccid paresis, marked mostly in lower limbs and proximal rather than distal m...

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• Kyphotic deformities as a result of laminectomy– results of surgical treatment

  TOMASZ POTACZEK, MACIEJ TĘSIOROWSKI, BARBARA JASIEWICZ, DANIEL ZARZYCKI, JOANNA LASOTA, STANISŁAW MAZURKIEWICZ, MAREK KULIG

  Introduction. Resection of tumours of the spinal canal performing laminectomy may lead to deformities in the sagittal plane. These deformities require surgical treatment in order to restor...

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• Two interspinous spacers in the treatment of bisegmental degenerative disc disease

  DANIEL ZARZYCKI, ANDRZEJ SMĘTKOWSKI, JOANNA LASOTA, PAWEŁ RADŁO, KRZYSZTOF ŁOKAS

  Introduction. Conventional surgical treatment of degenerative disc disease include decompression of neural structures and spinal fusion. Unfortunately fusion leads to overload the adjacent...

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• Complications and difficulties in treatment of degenerative disc disease in lumbar spine with interspinous distractor

  DANIEL ZARZYCKI, JOANNA LASOTA, ANDRZEJ SMĘTKOWSKI, JAKUB ADAMCZYK, PAWEŁ RADŁO, TOMASZ POTACZEK

  Research objective. Retrospective study on patients treated with implantation of interspinous distractor. Aim. To present the difficulties and complications that occurred during treatment ...

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• Morphology of spinal canal and dural sac before and after operation of lumbar stenosis in digital computer tomography

  KAZIMIERZ RĄPAŁA, SŁAWOMIR CHABEREK, ALEKSANDRA TRUSZCZYŃSKA, STANISŁAW ŁUKAWSKI, PIOTR WALCZAK

    Introduction. Stenosis or spinal canal narrowing is a term used for description of structural narrowing of spinal canal diameter. ...

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• Functional assessment of innovative vertebral body PEEK prosthesis “fusion”-type

  LECHOSŁAW F. CIUPIK, AGNIESZKA KIERZKOWSKA, PAWEŁ POWCHOWICZ, EDWARD SŁOŃSKI, MATEUSZ ŁOZOWSKI, TOMASZ KLUSCZYK

  The paper presents results of the bioengineering and preclinical studies of polymeric intervertebral stabilization used for surgical treatment of the spine after corporectomy. The aim of t...

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• Autologous chondrocytes culture

  ALEKSANDRA WYSOCKA-WYCISK, FABIAN KEPSKI, HENRYK BURSIG, STANISŁAW DYLĄG, TADEUSZ S. GAŹDZIK

  Aim of the study. The aim of the study was to develop our own method of chondrocyte culture in tissue adhesive. Material and methods. The authors have established an optimal method of cell...

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