Lower Hounsfield Units at the Upper Instrumented Vertebrae are Significantly Associated With Proximal Junctional Kyphosis and Failure Near the Thoracolumbar Junction - Concepedia

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Lower Hounsfield Units at the Upper Instrumented Vertebrae are Significantly Associated With Proximal Junctional Kyphosis and Failure Near the Thoracolumbar Junction

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2021

Year

Anthony L. Mikula, Jeremy L. Fogelson, Nikita Lakomkin, Patrick M. Flanigan, Zachariah W. Pinter, Matthew K. Doan, Mohamad Bydon, Ahmad Nassr, Brett A. Freedman, Arjun S. Sebastian,

Operative Neurosurgery

Abstract

Patients with lower HU at the UIV and UIV + 1 were significantly associated with PJK and PJF, with an optimal cutoff of 122 HU that maximizes sensitivity and specificity.

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