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List of works by Rafael De la Garza-Ramos

194 Efficacy of Primary Microvascular Decompression vs Salvage Microvascular Decompression for Trigeminal Neuralgia

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A Multidisciplinary Spine Surgical Indications Conference Leads to Alterations in Surgical Plans in a Significant Number of Cases: A Case Series

scientific article published on 24 September 2020

A National Analysis on Predictors of Discharge to Rehabilitation After Corrective Surgery for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

A Novel Clinical Scoring System for Perioperative Morbidity in Metastatic Spinal Tumor Surgery: The Spine Oncology Morbidity Assessment Score

scientific article published on 08 October 2020

Accuracy of C2 pedicle screw placement using the anatomic freehand technique

scientific article published on 20 July 2014

Adjacent segment disease after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion in a large series

scientific article published on 01 February 2014

Adjacent segment disease after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: Incidence and clinical outcomes of patients requiring anterior versus posterior repeat cervical fusion

scientific article published on 16 April 2014

Adjacent segment disease after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: clinical outcomes after first repeat surgery versus second repeat surgery

scientific article published on 01 January 2014

Adult cervicothoracic lipomyelomeningocele

scientific article published on 16 July 2016

Biomechanical evaluation comparing zero-profile devices versus fixed profile systems in a cervical hybrid decompression model: a biomechanical in vitro study

scientific article published on 18 October 2019

Charcot spinal arthropathy after spinal cord injury

scientific article published on 04 February 2016

Clinical, surgical, and molecular prognostic factors for survival after spinal sarcoma resection

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Commentary: Machine Learning With Feature Domains Elucidates Candidate Drivers of Hospital Readmission Following Spine Surgery in a Large Single-Center Patient Cohort

scientific article published on 23 May 2020

Commentary: Spinal instrumentation for mechanical radiculopathy secondary to lumbar metastases

scientific article published on 01 October 2014

Comparison of 30-day Outcomes in Cervical Spine Metastasis Patients Undergoing Corpectomy versus Posterior Cervical Laminectomy and Fusion: ACS-NSQIP Database Study 2006-2016

scientific article published on 27 November 2020

Comprehensive biomechanical analysis of three reconstruction techniques following total sacrectomy: an in vitro human cadaveric model

scientific article published on 4 August 2017

Concurrent neoadjuvant chemotherapy is an independent risk factor of stroke, all-cause morbidity, and mortality in patients undergoing brain tumor resection

scientific article published on 22 July 2014

Cranioplasty with polymethylmethacrylate prostheses fabricated by hand using original bone flaps: Technical note and surgical outcomes

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Deep-wound and organ-space infection after surgery for degenerative spine disease: an analysis from 2006 to 2012.

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Development of a Metastatic Spinal Tumor Frailty Index (MSTFI) Using a Nationwide Database and Its Association with Inpatient Morbidity, Mortality, and Length of Stay After Spine Surgery

scientific article published on 17 August 2016

Durotomy is associated with pseudoarthrosis following lumbar fusion

scientific article published on 17 December 2014

Editorial on "Increased radiation but no benefits in pedicle screw accuracy with navigation versus a freehand technique in scoliosis surgery"

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Editorial: Total sacrectomy for malignant sacral tumors via a posterior-only approach

scientific article published on 27 March 2015

Effect of Cage Type on Short-Term Radiographic Outcomes in Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion

scientific article published on 18 June 2020

Effect of body mass index on surgical outcomes after posterior spinal fusion for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis

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Effect of liberal blood transfusion on clinical outcomes and cost in spine surgery patients.

scientific article published on 27 April 2017

Efficacy of primary microvascular decompression versus subsequent microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia.

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En Bloc Resection of a Giant Cell Tumor in the Sacrum via a Posterior-Only Approach Without Nerve Root Sacrifice: Technical Case Report

scientific article published on 12 June 2015

Erratum: Long-term clinical outcomes following 3- and 4-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion

correction of a scholarly article

External fixation and surgical fusion for pediatric cervical spine injuries: Short-term outcomes

scientific article published on 5 February 2018

Factors associated with prolonged ventilation and reintubation in adult spinal deformity surgery

scientific article published on 24 May 2017

Factors associated with survival for patients with glioblastoma with poor pre-operative functional status.

scientific article published on 29 April 2013

Failure to extubate and delayed reintubation in elective lumbar fusion: An analysis of 57,677 cases

scientific article published on 02 March 2020

Fluorescent techniques in spine surgery.

scientific article published on 05 March 2014

Gender disparities in clinical presentation, treatment, and outcomes in metastatic spine disease

scientific article published on 18 December 2020

Hardware failure in patients with metastatic cancer to the spine

scientific article published on 19 July 2017

Hospital-acquired conditions occur more frequently in elective spine surgery than for other common elective surgical procedures

scientific article published on 21 April 2020

Iliac screw versus S2 alar-iliac screw fixation in adults: a meta-analysis

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Impact of Age on Short-term Outcomes After Lumbar Fusion: An Analysis of 1395 Patients Stratified by Decade Cohorts

scientific article published on 23 June 2015

Impact of Smoking on 30-day Morbidity and Mortality in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery

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Impact of body mass index on 30-day outcomes after spinopelvic fixation surgery

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Impact of frailty on complications in patients with thoracic and thoracolumbar spinal fracture

scientific article published on 9 April 2018

Impact of resident participation on morbidity and mortality in neurosurgical procedures: an analysis of 16,098 patients.

scientific article published on 9 January 2015

Impact of smoking on complication and pseudarthrosis rates after single- and 2-level posterolateral fusion of the lumbar spine

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Impact of smoking on postoperative complications after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion.

scientific article published on 16 January 2017

In Reply to A Letter to the Editor regarding "The Impact of Hospital Teaching Status on Timing of Intervention, Inpatient Morbidity, and Mortality After Surgery for Vertebral Column Fractures with Spinal Cord Injury."

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In-hospital medical complications after non-operative and operative treatment of thoracolumbar fractures in patients over 75 years of age.

scientific article published on 5 February 2018

Incidence and Predictors of Hardware Failure After Instrumentation for Spine Metastasis: A Single-Institutional Series

scientific article published on 19 February 2019

Incidence of Adjacent Segment Disease Requiring Reoperation After Lumbar Laminectomy Without Fusion: A Study of 398 Patients

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Incidence of sacral fractures and in-hospital postoperative complications in the United States: an analysis of 2002-2011 data

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Incidence, Risk Factors, and Mortality of Reintubation in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery

scientific article published on 27 June 2016

Inpatient morbidity after spinal deformity surgery in patients with movement disorders

scientific article published in December 2017

Inpatient morbidity and mortality after adult spinal deformity surgery in teaching versus nonteaching hospitals

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Internal hernias in pregnant women with history of gastric bypass surgery: Case series and review of literature.

scientific article published on 13 October 2012

Letter: Steroid Use Associated With Increased Odds of 30-Day Mortality in Surgical Patients With Metastatic Spinal Tumors in the Setting of Disseminated Disease

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Long-term clinical outcomes following 3- and 4-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion

scientific article published on 19 February 2016

Long-term outcomes after non-instrumented lumbar arthrodesis

scientific article published on 13 May 2014

Lumbar fusion versus nonoperative management for treatment of discogenic low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

scientific article published on July 2014

Minimally Invasive Separation Surgery with Intraoperative Stereotactic Guidance: A Feasibility Study

scientific article published on 19 September 2017

Minimally Invasive Tubular Separation Surgery for Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression: 2-Dimensional Operative Video

scientific article published on 29 December 2020

Minimally invasive transpedicular approach for the treatment of central calcified thoracic disc disease: a technical note

scientific article published on 15 December 2017

Multicentric Spinal Cord Glioblastoma.

scientific article published on 12 January 2017

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Complication Reduction in Complex Spine Surgery: A Systematic Review

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

Multilevel thoracic ossification of the ligamentum flavum in a Hispanic woman with achondroplasia.

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Outcomes following myxopapillary ependymoma resection: the importance of capsule integrity

scientific article published on August 2015

Patient and operative factors associated with complications following adolescent idiopathic scoliosis surgery: an analysis of 36,335 patients from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample

scientific article published on 26 August 2016

Perioperative Complications and Mortality Following Anterior Odontoid Screw Fixation in Elderly Patients: A National Database Analysis

scientific article published on 14 June 2019

Poor Nutrition Status and Lumbar Spine Fusion Surgery in the Elderly: Readmissions, Complications, and Mortality

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Posterior approaches for symptomatic metastatic spinal cord compression

scientific article published on August 2016

Postoperative Morbidity and Mortality After Elective Anterior Cervical Fusion in Patients with Chronic and End-Stage Renal Disease

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Predicting Short-Term Outcome After Surgery for Primary Spinal Tumors Based on Patient Frailty.

scientific article published on 14 September 2017

Predicting critical care unit-level complications after long-segment fusion procedures for adult spinal deformity.

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Predicting survival for metastatic spine disease: a comparison of nine scoring systems

scientific article published on 19 March 2018

Predictive Factors for Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Tube Placement After Anterior Cervical Fusion.

scientific article published on 18 December 2017

Predictors of Return to Normal Neurological Function After Surgery for Moderate and Severe Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: An Analysis of A Global AOSpine Cohort of Patients

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Predictors of reoperation and noninfectious complications following craniotomy for cerebral abscess

scientific article published on 27 February 2019

Preoperative functional status as a predictor of short-term outcome in adult spinal deformity surgery

scientific article published on 20 January 2017

Primary Versus Revision Spinal Fusion in Children: An Analysis of 74,525 Cases From the Nationwide Inpatient Sample

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Prognostic Value of Preoperative Nurick Grade and Time with Symptoms in Patients with Cervical Myelopathy and Gait Impairment

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Prolonged length of stay after posterior surgery for cervical spondylotic myelopathy in patients over 65years of age.

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Provider volume and short-term outcomes following surgery for spinal metastases

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Racial disparities in clinical presentation, type of intervention, and in-hospital outcomes of patients with metastatic spine disease: An analysis of 145,809 admissions in the United States

scientific article published on 08 August 2020

Rates, Risk Factors, and Complications of Red Blood Cell Transfusion in Metastatic Spinal Tumor Surgery: An Analysis of a Prospective Multicenter Surgical Database

scientific article published on 13 April 2020

Readmission after spinal epidural abscess management in urban populations: a bi-institutional study

scientific article published on 22 November 2019

Readmissions After Surgical Resection of Metastatic Tumors of the Spine at a Single Institution

scientific article published on 22 February 2017

Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Palsy After Cervical Spine Surgery: A Multicenter AOSpine Clinical Research Network Study

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Regression of an atlantoaxial rheumatoid pannus following posterior instrumented fusion

scientific article published on 18 June 2015

Risk Factors for 30-Day Non-Neurological Morbidity and Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak in Patients Undergoing Surgery for Vestibular Schwannoma

scientific article published on 21 June 2019

Risk Factors for 30-Day Readmissions and Reoperations After 3-Column Osteotomy for Spinal Deformity

scientific article published on 26 April 2018

Risk factors associated with short-term complications and mortality after pediatric spinal arthrodesis

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Risk factors for wound-related reoperations in patients with metastatic spine tumor.

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Sacral fractures

scientific article published on 01 January 2014

Single-Staged Multilevel Spondylectomy for En Bloc Resection of an Epithelioid Sarcoma With Intradural Extension in the Cervical Spine: Technical Case Report

scientific article published on 01 December 2015

Smoking as an independent predictor of reoperation after lumbar laminectomy: a study of 500 cases

scientific article published on 2 January 2015

Spinal instrumentation in patients with primary spinal infections does not lead to greater recurrent infection rates: an analysis of 118 cases

scientific article published on 14 June 2014

Sporadic intramedullary hemangioblastoma with holo-hydrosyringomyelia

scientific article published on 04 March 2016

Surgical Outcomes for Upper Lumbar Disc Herniations: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

scientific article published on 03 August 2020

Surgical complications following malignant brain tumor surgery: An analysis of 2002-2011 data.

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Tethered Cord Syndrome in the United States Cluster Analysis of Presenting Anomalies and Associated

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

The 100 most-cited articles in spinal oncology

scientific article published on 15 January 2016

The Effect of Cigarette Smoking on Wound Complications After Single-Level Posterolateral and Interbody Fusion for Spondylolisthesis

scientific article published on 23 May 2018

The Effect of July Admission on Inpatient Morbidity, Mortality, and Discharge Disposition After Endovascular Coiling in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

scientific article published on 26 September 2017

The Impact of COVID-19 on Emergent Large-Vessel Occlusion: Delayed Presentation Confirmed by ASPECTS

scientific article published on 03 September 2020

The Impact of Hospital Teaching Status on Timing of Intervention, Inpatient Morbidity, and Mortality After Surgery for Vertebral Column Fractures with Spinal Cord Injury

scientific article published on 30 November 2016

The Nationwide Burden of Neurological Conditions Requiring Emergency Neurosurgery

scientific article published on 01 September 2017

The Role of Biological Fusion and Anterior Column Support in a Long Lumbopelvic Spinal Fixation and Its Effect on the S1 Screw - An In-Silico Biomechanics Analysis

scientific article published on 04 November 2020

The cost-effectiveness of CT-guided sacroiliac joint injections: a measure of QALY gained

scientific article published on 28 April 2014

The effect of July admission on inpatient morbidity and mortality after adult spinal deformity surgery.

scientific article published on 8 January 2016

The epidemiology of spinal tuberculosis in the United States: an analysis of 2002-2011 data

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The impact of obesity on short- and long-term outcomes after lumbar fusion

scientific article published on January 2015

The use of stereotactic radiosurgery for the treatment of spinal axis tumors: a review

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Thirty day postoperative outcomes following anterior lumbar interbody fusion using the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database

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Thirty-day readmission and reoperation rates after single-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion versus those after cervical disc replacement

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Thoracic epidural spinal angiolipoma with coexisting lumbar spinal stenosis: Case report and review of the literature

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Time to Surgery and Outcomes in Cauda Equina Syndrome: An Analysis of 45 Cases

scientific article published on 24 December 2015

Timing of Complications Occurring Within 30 Days After Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery.

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Timing of Prophylactic Anticoagulation and Its Effect on Thromboembolic Events After Surgery for Metastatic Tumors of the Spine

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Total en bloc spondylectomy for locally aggressive and primary malignant tumors of the lumbar spine

scientific article published on 4 June 2016

Trends in medicare payments to physicians and implantable medical device manufacturers

scientific article published on 01 July 2014

Use of Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2 in Vertebral Column Tumor Surgery: A National Investigation

scientific article published on 04 May 2018

Use of Recombinant Human Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2 at the C1-C2 Lateral Articulation without Posterior Structural Bone Graft in Posterior Atlantoaxial Fusion in Adult Patients

scientific article published on 15 November 2018

Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty for cervical spine metastases: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 26 January 2016

Visual loss after corrective surgery for pediatric scoliosis: incidence and risk factors from a nationwide database

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Volume-Outcome Relationship After 1 and 2 Level Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion

scientific article published on 19 May 2017

Weekend versus Weekday Admission in Spinal Cord Injury and its Effect on Timing of Surgical Intervention

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

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