There have been many influential studies on surgery of the lower spine and its affect on back pain, and in this article, the “top 100 papers” are counted down in a special review in Spine. Dr. Samuel K. Cho and colleagues of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, performed a literature review to analyze and quantify the most important research papers on lumbar spine surgery. Their results raise some interesting “questions, trends and observations”

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