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Can the Surgical Apgar Score predict morbidity and mortality in general orthopaedic surgery?Julio Urrutia
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Marcoleta 352, Santiago, Chile
Int Orthop 36:2571-6. 2012....- Cervical disc herniation producing acute Brown-Sequard syndrome: dynamic changes documented by intraoperative neuromonitoringJulio Urrutia
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Marcoleta 352, Santiago, Chile
Eur Spine J 21:S418-21. 2012..Cervical disc herniation is an exceptional cause of this syndrome... - The impact of lumbar scoliosis on pain, function and health-related quality of life in postmenopausal womenJulio Urrutia
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Marcoleta 352, Santiago, Chile
Eur Spine J 20:2223-7. 2011..Regression disclosed that Cobb angle values did not influence ODI, SF-36 or VAS values. In postmenopausal women with mild and moderate lumbar curves, Cobb angle had no influence on pain, function and QOL; age and BMI had small effect... 
Do corticosteroids affect lumbar spinal fusion? A rabbit model using high-dose methylprednisoloneJulio Urrutia
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Marcoleta 352, Santiago, Chile
J Orthop Sci 16:439-42. 2011....- Lumbar scoliosis in postmenopausal women: prevalence and relationship with bone density, age, and body mass indexJulio Urrutia
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 36:737-40. 2011..Cross-sectional study... - Clinical and imaging findings in patients with aggressive spinal hemangioma requiring surgical treatmentJulio Urrutia
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Marcoleta 352, Santiago, Chile
J Clin Neurosci 18:209-12. 2011..Although it is rare, aggressive VH can be a devastating condition. Total surgical resection or subtotal resection with radiotherapy may be warranted... - Cultured autologous bone marrow stem cells inhibit bony fusion in a rabbit model of posterolateral lumbar fusion with autologous bone graftJulio Urrutia
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Marcoleta 352, Santiago, Chile
J Clin Neurosci 17:481-5. 2010..05). Adding differentiated BMSCs in a pellet without a scaffold not only failed to increase fusion rate, but completely inhibited bony growth... - Effect of a single dose of pamidronate administered at the time of surgery in a rabbit posterolateral spinal fusion modelJulio Urrutia
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Marcoleta 352, Santiago, Chile
Eur Spine J 19:940-4. 2010..137. In a rabbit model, a single dose of PA did not decrease lumbar spinal arthrodesis consolidation rates, but it obtained a nonsignificant higher spinal fusion rate... - Long-term results of surgical treatment of dysphagia secondary to cervical diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosisJulio Urrutia
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Marcoleta 352, Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
Spine J 9:e13-7. 2009..The current report describes outcomes of a series of five patients with surgical treatment for this rare disorder, with a long-term follow-up... - Chronic liver failure and concomitant distant infections are associated with high rates of neurological involvement in pyogenic spinal infectionsJulio Urrutia
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Marcoleta, Santiago, Chile
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 34:E240-4. 2009..A retrospective study of a consecutive series of all patients with pyogenic spinal infections treated at a single institution over a 10-year period... - Autograft versus allograft with or without demineralized bone matrix in posterolateral lumbar fusion in rabbits. Laboratory investigationJulio Urrutia
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
J Neurosurg Spine 9:84-9. 2008.... - Early histologic changes following polymethylmethacrylate injection (vertebroplasty) in rabbit lumbar vertebraeJulio Urrutia
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 33:877-82. 2008..An ex vivo histologic study in rabbits... 
The effect of ketoprophen on lumbar spinal fusion healing in a rabbit model. Laboratory investigationJulio Urrutia
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
J Neurosurg Spine 7:631-6. 2007..The authors used a validated rabbit model to try to determine the influence of the NSAID ketoprophen on the fusion rate in lumbar spinal arthrodesis...- Extensive epidural abscess with surgical treatment and long term follow upJulio Urrutia
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Marcoleta 352, Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
Spine J 7:708-11. 2007..Spinal epidural abscess is an uncommon infection. There are few reports on extensive epidural abscesses... - Factors associated with variability in length of sick leave because of acute low back pain in ChileClaudio Diaz-Ledezma
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Mutual de Seguridad CChC, Clinica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile
Spine J 9:1010-5. 2009..Most research on risk factors for prolonged sick leave because of LBP has been done in Anglo-Saxon or Northern European populations with occupational LBP. Few studies have been conducted in less affluent Latin countries... - Factors associated with avascular necrosis of the femoral head and nonunion in patients younger than 65 years with displaced femoral neck fractures treated with reduction and internal fixationDaniel Schweitzer
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital del Trabajador de Santiago, Ramon Carnicer 185, Santiago, Chile
Eur J Orthop Surg Traumatol 23:61-5. 2013..Few studies have evaluated treatment of displaced femoral neck fractures in patients younger than 65 years, and risk factors for AVN or nonunion have not been clearly delineated within this age range... - Surgical treatment of solitary plasmocytoma of the spine: case seriesSergio Mendoza
Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Iowa Orthop J 24:86-94. 2004..We used parameters described by Taneishi and Kaneda, as well as those of Heller and Boden to predict progressive vertebral collapse. Three cases are presented and their treatment is described...