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  1. To compare standalone oblique lateral interbody fusion (OLIF) vs. OLIF combined with posterior bilateral percutaneous pedicle screw fixation (OLIF combined) for the treatment of lumbar spondylolisthesis.

    Authors: Wei He, Da He, Yuqing Sun, Yonggang Xing, Jiankun Wen, Weiheng Wang, Yanhai Xi, Mingming Liu, Wei Tian and Xiaojian Ye
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:184
  2. The Western Ontario Meniscal Evaluation Tool (WOMET) is the only questionnaire available to assess quality of life in patients with isolated meniscal injuries. The aims of this study were to prepare the Persia...

    Authors: Naghmeh Ebrahimi, Soofia Naghdi, Noureddin Nakhostin Ansari, Shohreh Jalaie and Nasser Salsabili
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:183
  3. In an ageing population, pain, frailty and disability frequently coexist across a wide range of musculoskeletal diagnoses, but their associations remain incompletely understood. The Investigating Musculoskelet...

    Authors: Bonnie Millar, Daniel F. McWilliams, Abhishek Abhishek, Kehinde Akin-Akinyosoye, Dorothee P. Auer, Victoria Chapman, Michael Doherty, Eamonn Ferguson, John R. F. Gladman, Paul Greenhaff, Joanne Stocks, Ana M. Valdes and David A. Walsh
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:182
  4. The association between fibromyalgia and irritable bowel syndrome is well-established. Alterations in the composition and diversity of the gut microbiome in irritable bowel syndrome have been reported, however...

    Authors: Sharon Erdrich, Jason A. Hawrelak, Stephen P. Myers and Joanna E. Harnett
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:181
  5. Multiple approaches for fixation of distal radius fractures exist; nonetheless, there is no consensus on the optimal treatment for these injuries. Although using volar locking plates has become increasingly co...

    Authors: Feng-Shuo Chang, Chih-Hui Chen, Cheng-Hung Lee, Kun-Tsan Lee and Yi-Cheng Cho
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:180
  6. The incidence of rupture of the quadriceps or patellar tendon s is low, especially that of bilateral quadriceps tendon rupture, and it is generally considered a complication secondary to chronic systemic disor...

    Authors: Zhengbo Tao, Wenbo Liu, Weifeng Ma, Peng Luo, Shengpeng Zhi and Renyi Zhou
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:179
  7. We aimed to present our experience of adopting tissue adhesive as adjunct to standard wound closure in total hip arthroplasty (THA) and evaluate its performance.

    Authors: Xiangpeng Kong, Minzhi Yang, Zheng Cao, Jiying Chen, Wei Chai and Yan Wang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:178
  8. The objective of our study was to compare clinical outcome and postoperative complications between patients with thoracic myelopathy caused by ossification of the ligamentum flavum (OLF) treated with and witho...

    Authors: Xiaoyang Huo, Jiaming Zhou, Shiwei Liu, Xing Guo and Yuan Xue
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:177
  9. Poor prognosis was reported for complex Pilon fractures involving severe soft tissue damage. It is therefore useful to explore the evolution of different treatment strategies in an effort to reconstruct the ax...

    Authors: Dankai Wu, Chuangang Peng, Guangkai Ren, Baoming Yuan and He Liu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:176
  10. This is a case of lateral recess stenosis secondary occurred the discal fungus infection treated with percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic discectomy (PTED). There has been no relevant reports before.

    Authors: Yunpeng Fan, Tao Xie, Yao Pang, Liulong Zhu and Shaobo Zhou
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:175
  11. The conventional way to identify generalised joint hypermobility is by a physical examination according to the Beighton Score. However, a physical examination is time-consuming in clinical practise and may be ...

    Authors: Martin Glans, Mats B. Humble, Marie Elwin and Susanne Bejerot
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:174
  12. Hand osteoarthritis (OA) has a wide spectrum of clinical presentations and physical function is one of the core domains where patients suffer. The Functional Index for Hand Osteoarthritis (FIHOA) is a leading ...

    Authors: Yasunobu Nakagawa, Shigeru Kurimoto, Emmanuel Maheu, Yuichiro Matsui, Yuri Kanno, Kunitaka Menuki, Masanori Hayashi, Tetsuya Nemoto, Takanobu Nishizuka, Masahiro Tatebe, Michiro Yamamoto, Katsuyuki Iwatsuki, Renée Liliane Dreiser and Hitoshi Hirata
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:173
  13. A retrospective and comparative study of transverse process strut (TPS, Group A) compared with titanium mesh cages (TMCs, Group B) in the reconstruction of thoracic stability through the one-stage posterior ap...

    Authors: Weiyang Zhong, Xinjie Liang, Ke Tang, Xiaoji Luo and Zhengxue Quan
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:172
  14. Cervical radiculopathy is usually caused by disc herniation or spondylosis. The prognosis is expected to be good in most patients, but there is limited scientific evidence on the indications for nonsurgical an...

    Authors: Mirad Taso, Jon HÃ¥vard Sommernes, Frode Kolstad, Jarle Sundseth, Siri Bjorland, Are Hugo Pripp, John Anker Zwart and Jens Ivar Brox
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:171
  15. The Dutch-Flemish PROMIS® Upper Extremity (DF-PROMIS-UE) V2.0 item bank was recently developed using Item Response Theory (IRT). Unknown for this bank are: (1) if it is legitimate to calculate IRT-based scores...

    Authors: C. M. Lameijer, S. G. J. van Bruggen, E. J. A. Haan, D. F. P. Van Deurzen, K. Van der Elst, V. Stouten, A. J. Kaat, L. D. Roorda and C. B. Terwee
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:170
  16. The purpose of this study was to determine whether a specific threshold per lifting movement, the accumulation above which best predicts lumbar disk protrusion, exists or the total lifting load should be consi...

    Authors: Isabella Y.-J. Hung, Tiffany T.-F. Shih, Bang-Bin Chen, Saou-Hsing Liou, Ing-Kang Ho and Yue Leon Guo
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:169
  17. The aim of the study was to compare the accuracy of percutaneous pedicle screw (PPS) insertion (P-side) with that of conventional open screw insertion (O-side) during unilateral open transforaminal lumbar inte...

    Authors: Satoshi Sumiya, Fujiki Numano, Takahisa Ogawa, Toshitaka Yoshii, Atsushi Okawa and Hiromichi Komori
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:168
  18. Dysplasia epiphysealis hemimelica (DEH), also known as Trevor’s disease, is a rare skeletal developmental disorder affecting the epiphyses in pediatric patients. DEH is characterized by an asymmetric osteochon...

    Authors: Fei Gao, Guo Chen, Ruoyu Wang, Pan Huang, Jing Wang and Weihua Xu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:167
  19. Musculoskeletal pain is common in the working population and may affect the work ability, especially among those with high physical work demands. This study investigated the association between physical work d...

    Authors: Sebastian Venge Skovlund, Rúni Bláfoss, Emil Sundstrup and Lars L. Andersen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:166
  20. Individualized and accurate implantation of a tibial prosthesis during total knee arthroplasty (TKA) can assist in uniformly distributing the load and reducing the polyethylene wear to obtain a long-term prost...

    Authors: Yuefu Dong, Zhen Zhang, Wanpeng Dong, Guanghong Hu, Bing Wang and Zhifang Mou
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:165
  21. Vitamin D deficiency has long been studied as a risk factor for osteoporosis. However, the association between serum vitamin D status, bone mineral density (BMD) and the incidence of vertebral fractures (OVFs)...

    Authors: Kishor chhantyal, Lei He, Jian Mo, Mingyu Yin, Tianwei He, Yuyong Chen, Yang Yang, Liangming Zhang and Limin Rong
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:164
  22. Currently used performance measures for discrimination were not informative to determine the clinical benefit of predictor variables. The purpose was to evaluate if a former relevant predictor, kinesiophobia, ...

    Authors: A. M. Panken, J. B. Staal and M. W. Heymans
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:163
  23. A combination of conventional computed tomography and single photon emitted computed tomography (SPECT/CT) provides simultaneous data on the intensity and location of osteoblastic activity. Currently, since SP...

    Authors: Félix Dandois, Stijn De Buck, Lucas Beckers, Darshan Shah, Laura Slane, Hilde Vandenneucker and Lennart Scheys
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:162
  24. Bizarre parosteal osteochondromatous proliferation (BPOP) is a relatively rare benign extraperiosteal osteochondroma-like proliferative lesion that shares similarities with malignant tumours in terms of morpho...

    Authors: Ruoyu Yao, En Lin Goh, Zhaoxiang Fan, Xuequn Wu and Yanqi Feng
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:161
  25. Although education, exercise, and weight loss are recommended for management of knee osteoarthritis, the additional benefits of incorporating weight loss strategies into exercise interventions have not been we...

    Authors: Kim L. Bennell, Catherine Keating, Belinda J. Lawford, Alexander J. Kimp, Thorlene Egerton, Courtney Brown, Jessica Kasza, Libby Spiers, Joseph Proietto, Priya Sumithran, Jonathan G. Quicke, Rana S. Hinman, Anthony Harris, Andrew M. Briggs, Carolyn Page, Peter F. Choong…
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:160
  26. MRI scanning has revolutionized the clinical diagnosis of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). However, there is currently no consensus as to how best to classify MRI findings which has hampered the development of ro...

    Authors: Yuyu Ishimoto, Amir Jamaludin, Cyrus Cooper, Karen Walker-Bone, Hiroshi Yamada, Hiroshi Hashizume, Hiroyuki Oka, Sakae Tanaka, Noriko Yoshimura, Munehito Yoshida, Jill Urban, Timor Kadir and Jeremy Fairbank
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:158
  27. Objective: White cord syndrome is extremely rare and search of the literature has revealed very few cases. Postoperative MR scan revealed hyperintense intrinsic cord signal changes within cord ischemia and ede...

    Authors: Deuk Soo Jun, Jong-Min Baik and Seung-Kwan Lee
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:157
  28. Sonographers have reported a high occurrence of musculoskeletal pain for more than 25 years. Assessments of occupational risk factors have previously been based on cross-sectional surveys. The aim of this long...

    Authors: Jenny Gremark Simonsen, Anna Axmon, Catarina Nordander and Inger Arvidsson
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:156
  29. Hajdu-Cheney syndrome (HCS) is a rare inherited skeletal disorder caused by pathogenic mutations in exon 34 of NOTCH2. Its highly variable phenotypes make early diagnosis challenging. In this paper, we report a c...

    Authors: Chunhua Zeng, Yunting Lin, Zhikun Lu, Zhen Chen, Xiaoling Jiang, Xiaojian Mao, Zongcai Liu, Xinshuo Lu, Kangdi Zhang, Qiaoli Yu, Xiaoya Wang, Yonglan Huang and Li Liu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:154
  30. High tibial osteotomy is commonly performed in young patients with high activity demand. Several studies have reported outcome of HTO. The reported 10-year survival ranged from 79 to 97.6%. The reported 15-yea...

    Authors: Xi Chen, Zhen Yang, Hairui Li, Shibai Zhu, Yiou Wang and Wenwei Qian
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:153
  31. In osteoporotic bone, the quality of the bone-to-implant interface is decreased, which may lead to early implant failure. Screw anchorage can be improved by augmentation. This effect is mainly investigated wit...

    Authors: Martin Schulze, Oliver Riesenbeck, Thomas Vordemvenne, Michael J. Raschke, Julia Evers, René Hartensuer and Dominic Gehweiler
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:151
  32. Rheumatoid arthritis is a long-term, progressive autoimmune disease. It is characterized by synovial hyperplasia leading to swelling, stiffness, and joint deformity in more than one joint. Fibroblast-like syno...

    Authors: Hong-Yan Meng, Li-Qing Chen and Li-Hui Chen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:150
  33. It is known that Fas ligand (FasL) is involved in the development of intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD). A recent study reported that lncRNA MAGI2-AS3 up-regulated the expression of FasL to promote breast ...

    Authors: Shuting Cui, Zizhen Liu, Bin Tang, Zhizhen Wang and Baojian Li
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:149
  34. Varus malalignment of the tibia could alter ankle biomechanics, and might lead to degenerative changes of the ankle joint. However, previous studies failed to report the detailed changes of ankle biomechanics ...

    Authors: Yuan Zhu, Xingchen Li and Xiangyang Xu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:148
  35. Pelvic fractures are rare in toddlers but are often associated with other injuries that make treatment difficult. Conservative treatment has been used with moderate success, but it is unclear if surgical corre...

    Authors: Yuancheng Liu, Xiaorui Zhan, Fuming Huang, Xiangyuan Wen, Yuhui Chen, Cheng Yang and Shicai Fan
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:147
  36. Plate fixation is an established method for treating unstable distal clavicle fractures. However, the appropriate timing of surgery for acute distal clavicle fractures remains unclear. The present study aimed ...

    Authors: Ryogo Furuhata, Masaaki Takahashi, Teppei Hayashi, Miyu Inagawa, Aki Kono, Noboru Matsumura, Yusaku Kamata, Hiroshi Arino and Hideo Morioka
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:146
  37. The incidence of periprosthetic fractures after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is rising due to the increasing number of TKAs performed annually and the growing elderly population. A periprosthetic fracture of ...

    Authors: Koji Nozaka, Naohisa Miyakoshi, Takeshi Sato and Yoichi Shimada
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:145
  38. Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC) is a rare syndrome with multiple joint contractures. Within the medical community, there is controversy surrounding AMC in terms of the ideal surgical approach and age ...

    Authors: Mingyuan Miao, Haiqing Cai, Zhigang Wang, Liwei Hu, Jingxia Bian and Haoqi Cai
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:144
  39. Anterior cervical spine surgery is often associated with postoperative dysphagia, but chronic dysphagia caused by laryngo-vertebral synostosis is extremely rare. We report a case of chronic dysphagia caused by...

    Authors: Ichiro Okano, Joe Omata, Yushi Hoshino, Yuki Usui, Tomoaki Toyone and Katsunori Inagaki
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:143
  40. Low back pain (LBP) is one of the greatest contributors to disability in the world and there is growing interest on the role of biomarkers in LBP. To purpose of this review was to analyze available evidence on...

    Authors: Patrick Morris, Kareem Ali, Mackenzie Merritt, Joey Pelletier and Luciana G Macedo
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:142
  41. The Personalised Knee Improvement Programme (P-KIP) was developed based on previously published work, with the hypothesis that surgeons would refer patients to a well-structured conservative management interve...

    Authors: Timothy Barlow, Timothy Rhodes-Jones, Sue Ballinger, Andrew Metcalfe, David Wright and Peter Thompson
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:140
  42. The Dynamic Locking Blade Plate (DLBP) was recently introduced for fixation of displaced femoral neck fractures (FNF) and has been well received. Although the results of this implant in young patients are prom...

    Authors: J. H. Kalsbeek, W. H. Roerdink, P. Krijnen, M. E. van den Akker-van Marle and I. B. Schipper
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:139
  43. Falls are a major cause of injury and death among older people. Evidence suggests that people with osteoarthritis (OA) are at a higher risk of falls and fall-related injuries including fractures. While studies...

    Authors: Sze-Ee Soh, Anna L. Barker, Renata T. Morello and Ilana N. Ackerman
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:138
  44. In adults, Baker’s cyst development is attributable principally to secondary alterations after degenerative changes. The latter changes often accompany osteoarthritis, and we frequently encounter patients with...

    Authors: Byung-Ill Lee, Jong-Hyeon Seo, Yong-Beom Kim and Gi-Won Seo
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:137
  45. Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) syndrome and acetabular dysplasia (AD) are common pathologies that lead to pain in the young adult hip. Nocturnal pain in these patients is often reported, yet little is know...

    Authors: Nisha Reddy, J. Riley Martinez, Edward Mulligan, Paul Nakonezny and Joel Wells
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:134
  46. One in three women and one in five men are expected to experience a minimal-trauma-fracture after the age of 50-years, which increases the risk of subsequent fracture. Importantly, timely diagnosis and optimal...

    Authors: Steven A. Frost, Ayano Kelly, Julia Gaudin, Lynette Mc Evoy, Carol Wilson, Lynda Marov, Carlos El Haddad, Jacqueline Center, John A. Eisman, Tuan V. Nguyen and Geraldine Hassett
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:133

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