Asian Spine Journal

Maximal facet tropism of 10.8° as a quantitative cutoff for predicting lumbar disk herniation in young elite athletes: a retrospective case-control study in Japan: Takayuki Kitahara, Masatoshi Morimoto, Naoto Ono, Takafumi Ohshima, Yuji Nagao, Saori Soeda, Kosuke Sugiura, Hiroaki Manabe, Fumitake Tezuka, Hiroshi Kageyama, Junzo Fujitani, Kazuta Yamashita, Koichi Sairyo; Received September 10, 2025 Accepted January 6, 2026 Published online March 31, 2026; [Online first]; Full text PubReader ePub PDF Supplementary Material

Preoperative ligamentum flavum thickness as a predictor of the progression of postoperative hypertrophy at the cranial adjacent level after posterior lumbar interbody fusion: a retrospective observational study in Japan: Tatsuhisa Takekawa, Takeshi Oichi, Masanori Hashimoto, Masahiro Hirahata, Muneyoshi Fujita, Takahiro Inui, Keisuke Ishii, Satoshi Miyata, Hirotaka Kawano, Tomoaki Kitagawa; Received March 31, 2025 Accepted October 27, 2025 Published online March 17, 2026; [Online first]; Full text PubReader ePub PDF Supplementary Material

Recurrent lumbar disc herniation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of risk factors, surgical timing, and outcomes of revision discectomy versus fusion: Sydney Rucker, Aidan Gillespie, Robert J Ferdon, Warren Roth, Jason Silvestre, Charles Reitman, James Lawrence, Robert A Ravinsky; Received June 19, 2025 Accepted August 27, 2025 Published online March 16, 2026; [Online first]; Full text PubReader ePub PDF

Increased paraspinal muscles fatty infiltration and ligamentum flavum hypertrophy as independent predictors of posterior revision surgery following lateral lumbar interbody fusion with lateral plate fixation: a retrospective study: Zhan Wang, Shengjun Qian, Renjie Peng, Jun Li, Hao Li, Xiankuan Xie, Ning Zhang, Fangcai Li; Received August 11, 2025 Accepted October 27, 2025 Published online March 16, 2026; [Online first]; Full text PubReader ePub PDF

Risk factors for metastatic spinal cord compression in patients with spinal metastases: analysis of epidural metastases: Shuhei Ohyama, Yasuhiro Shiga, Yuki Shiratani, Noriyasu Toshi, Yuki Nagashima, Kosuke Takeda, Takashi Takeuchi, Takuto Oki, Seii Kojo, Hiroki Miyazaki, Soichiro Tokeshi, Kohei Okuyama, Noritaka Suzuki, Masahiro Inoue, Kazuhide Inage, Sumihisa Orita, Hajime Yokota, Takashi Uno, Seiji Ohtori, Takeo Furuya; Received August 14, 2025 Accepted October 6, 2025 Published online February 4, 2026; [Online first]; Full text PubReader ePub PDF

Predicting residual neurologic deficits using the Spinal Infection Treatment Evaluation score after surgery for thoracic and lumbar spinal epidural abscess: a retrospective study in Taiwan: Jian-Jiun Chen, Hsi-Hsien Lin, Po-Hsin Chou, Shih-Tien Wang, Chien-Lin Liu, Yu-Cheng Yao; Asian Spine J. 2026;20(2):255-263. Published online September 23, 2025; DOI: https://doi.org/10.31616/asj.2025.0285
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A comprehensive review of risk factors and prevention strategies: how to minimize mechanical complications in corrective surgery for adult spinal deformity: Jin-Sung Park, Hyun-Jun Kim, Se-Jun Park, Dong-Ho Kang, Chong-Suh Lee; Asian Spine J. 2025;19(3):463-475. Published online March 4, 2025; DOI: https://doi.org/10.31616/asj.2024.0505
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Evaluating the effect of early balloon kyphoplasty on adjacent vertebral fracture risk in osteoporotic vertebral fracture management: a retrospective study: Masatoshi Yamamoto, Koji Ohta, Daisuke Hirano, Maki Noguchi, Shuhei Ayukawa, Keigo Shirasaki, Kenya Ishizu, Tetsuya Watanabe, Keiichiro Iida; Asian Spine J. 2025;19(3):408-414. Published online March 4, 2025; DOI: https://doi.org/10.31616/asj.2024.0494
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Predictors of hospitalization for longer than one day following elective single-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: a retrospective case-control database study: Sam Han Jiang, James W. Nie, Nauman Shaukat Chaudhry, Saavan Patel, Darius Ansari, Ashwin Ganesh, Jeffrey Z. Nie, Jaimin Patel, Ankit Indravadan Mehta; Asian Spine J. 2025;19(3):389-398. Published online March 4, 2025; DOI: https://doi.org/10.31616/asj.2024.0321; Full text PubReader ePub PDF Supplementary Material

Factors related to surgical site infection in spinal instrumentation surgery: a retrospective study in Japan: Kazumasa Konishi, Hideto Sano, Yosuke Kawano, Takehiko Moroi, Takumi Takeuchi, Masahito Takahashi, Naobumi Hosogane; Asian Spine J. 2024;18(6):822-828. Published online October 22, 2024; DOI: https://doi.org/10.31616/asj.2024.0274
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Adjacent segment degeneration at a minimum 2-year follow-up after posterior lumbar interbody fusion: the impact of sagittal spinal proportion: a retrospective case series: Xuepeng Wei, Yu Yamato, Tomohiko Hasegawa, Go Yoshida, Tomohiro Banno, Shin Oe, Hideyuki Arima, Koichiro Ide, Tomohiro Yamada, Kenta Kurosu, Yukihiro Matsuyama; Asian Spine J. 2024;18(5):681-689. Published online August 21, 2024; DOI: https://doi.org/10.31616/asj.2024.0108
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Discharge within 1 day following elective single-level transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion: a propensityscore-matched analysis of predictors, complications, and readmission: Sam H. Jiang, Nauman S. Chaudhry, James W. Nie, Saavan Patel, Darius Ansari, Jeffrey Z. Nie, Pal Shah, Jaimin Patel, Ankit I. Mehta; Asian Spine J. 2024;18(3):362-371. Published online May 23, 2024; DOI: https://doi.org/10.31616/asj.2023.0372; Full text PubReader ePub PDF Supplementary Material

Short-Term Risk Factors for Distal Junctional Kyphosis after Spinal Reconstruction Surgery in Patients with Osteoporotic Vertebrae: Yuta Sawada, Shinji Takahashi, Hidetomi Terai, Minori Kato, Hiromitsu Toyoda, Akinobu Suzuki, Koji Tamai, Akito Yabu, Masayoshi Iwamae, Hiroaki Nakamura; Asian Spine J. 2024;18(1):101-109. Published online February 21, 2024; DOI: https://doi.org/10.31616/asj.2023.0174
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Spinal Deformity, Surgery at the Cervicothoracic Junction, and American Society of Anesthesiologists Class Increase the Risk of Post-surgical Intensive Care Unit Treatment after Dorsal Spine Surgery: A Single-Center Multivariate Analysis of 962 Patients: Jannik Leyendecker, Tobias Prasse, Ahmad Al Rahhal, Christoph Paul Hofstetter, Wolfgang Wetsch, Peer Eysel, Jan Bredow; Asian Spine J. 2023;17(6):1035-1042. Published online November 10, 2023; DOI: https://doi.org/10.31616/asj.2023.0093; Full text PubReader ePub PDF

Complication Pattern of Sacral Primary Tumor Resection: A Study on the Risk Factors of Surgical Site Infection and Bowel or Bladder Dysfunction and Their Associations with Length of Hospital Stay: Kristof Koch, Peter Pal Varga, Marton Ronai, Istvan Klemencsics, Zsolt Szoverfi, Aron Lazary; Asian Spine J. 2023;17(5):851-861. Published online September 11, 2023; DOI: https://doi.org/10.31616/asj.2022.0404
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