Rajkishen Narayanan, Omar H Tarawneh, Delano Trenchfield, Matthew H Meade, Yunsoo Lee, Olivia Opara, Michael A McCurdy, Nathaniel Pineda, Lan David Kaye, Fatimah Alhassan, Michael Vo, John J Mangan, Jose A Canseco, Alan S Hilibrand, Alexander R Vaccaro, Christopher K Kepler, Gregory D Schroeder
STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective Cohort. OBJECTIVE: (1) To determine if vertebral HU values obtained from preoperative CT predict postoperative outcomes following 1-3 level lumbar fusion and (2) to investigate whether decreased BMD values determined by HU predict cage subsidence and screw loosening. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: In light of suboptimal screening for osteoporosis, vertebral computerized tomography(CT) Hounsfield Units(HU), have been investigated as a surrogate for bone mineral density(BMD)...
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