IMAGING 2
LUMBAR SPINE
TUMOR
MIS
POTPOURRI
200

Most likely diagnosis.

What is ependymoma?

200

Most common type of spondylolisthesis in adults.

What is degenerative? 

200

Most common location for spinal metastasis.

What is the thoracic spine?

200

Name the procedure.

What is biportal endoscopy? 

200

Most common level for degenerative spondylolisthesis.

What is L4-5?

400

What is a Chance fracture?

400

The most coronally oriented facet joint.

What is L5-S1?

400

The typical radiation dose delivered using conventional external beam radiation to treat spinal metastasis.

What is 30 gy over 10 fractions?

400

Name the procedure.

What is LLIF (transpsoas)?

400

Most common level for lytic spondylolisthesis.

What is L5-S1?

600


What is hemangioma? 

600

Cause of low back pain.

What is Bertolotti's Syndrome?

600

Provide ESSC grade (assume mild compression of the spinal cord)

What is grade 2?"

600

First commercially popular percutaneous pedicle screw-rod system.

What is Sextant? 

600

Number of lumbar discectomies performed in the US annually.

What is 300,000?

800

Most likely infectious condition.

What is Pott's disease.

800

Cause of low back pain.

What is Baastrup disease?

800

SINS score of 13 suggests

What is instability?

800

Saphenous nerve monitoring is used to minimize injury to this nerve during LLIF.

What is the femoral nerve? 

800

Number (approximate) of lumbar fusions performed in the US per year?

What is 300,000-400,000?

1000

Responds to NSAIDs.

What is osteoid osteoma? 

1000

Range of normal lordosis distribution.

What is 50-80%? 

1000

Most likely diagnosis and type of surgical treatment offered.

What are chordoma and en bloc resection? 

1000

Lateral minimally invasive procedure that can increase segmental lordosis >20 degrees.

What is anterior column re-alignment (ACR)?

1000

Hallmark of Modic type II changes.

What is fatty replacement?

1200

What is chordoma?

1200

Location of the instantaneous axis of rotation.

What is the posterior disc?

1200

The four components of the NOMS framework.

What are neurologic, oncologic, mechanical, systemic disease?

1200

Alignment correction with MIS deformity surgery is most reliant on this.

What is interbody fusion? 

1200

OPLL is most common in this ethnic group.

Who are east asians?

1400


What is ventral spinal cord herniation?

1400

The strongest ligament in the lumbar spine and its function.

What is the anterior longitudinal ligament and limits extension?

1400

Name the 6 components of the SINS system.

What are location, mechanical pain, bone lesion, radiographic alignment, vertebral body collapse, posterolateral involvement?


1400

The most cited publication regarding MIS surgery involved this procedure.

What is XLIF? 

1400

Name the 5 types (causes) of spondylolisthesis.

What are congential(dysplastic), isthmic, degenerative, traumatic, pathologic?

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