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Alan S. Hilibrand
Researcher at Thomas Jefferson University
Publications - 416
Citations - 17968
Alan S. Hilibrand is an academic researcher from Thomas Jefferson University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Lumbar. The author has an hindex of 67, co-authored 305 publications receiving 15666 citations. Previous affiliations of Alan S. Hilibrand include Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.
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Surgical versus Nonsurgical Therapy for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
James Neil Weinstein,Tor D. Tosteson,Jon D. Lurie,Anna N. A. Tosteson,Emily A. Blood,Brett Hanscom,Harry N. Herkowitz,Frank P. Cammisa,Todd J. Albert,Scott D. Boden,Alan S. Hilibrand,Harley Goldberg,Sigurd Berven,Howard S. An +13 more
TL;DR: Patients who underwent surgery showed significantly more improvement in all primary outcomes than did patients who were treated nonsurgically, and the combined as-treated analysis showed a significant advantage for surgery by 3 months for allPrimary outcomes.
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Surgical vs Nonoperative Treatment for Lumbar Disk Herniation: The Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT): A Randomized Trial
James Neil Weinstein,Tor D. Tosteson,Jon D. Lurie,Anna N. A. Tosteson,Brett Hanscom,Jonathan Skinner,William A. Abdu,Alan S. Hilibrand,Scott D. Boden,Richard A. Deyo +9 more
TL;DR: Patients in both the surgery and the nonoperative treatment groups improved substantially over a 2-year period, and conclusions about the superiority or equivalence of the treatments are not warranted based on the intent-to-treat analysis.
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Donor site morbidity after anterior iliac crest bone harvest for single-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion.
Jeff S. Silber,D. Greg Anderson,Scott D. Daffner,Brian T. Brislin,J. Martin Leland,Alan S. Hilibrand,Alexander R. Vaccaro,Todd J. Albert +7 more
TL;DR: A large percentage of patients report chronic donor site pain after anterior ICBG donation, even when only a single-level ACDF procedure is performed, and long-term functional impairment can also be significant.
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Adjacent segment degeneration and adjacent segment disease: the consequences of spinal fusion?
TL;DR: There appears to be an incidence of adjacent segment degeneration and disease after arthrodesis that may be related to natural degeneration or the adjacent fusion.
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Surgical versus Nonsurgical Treatment for Lumbar Degenerative Spondylolisthesis
James Neil Weinstein,Jon D. Lurie,Tor D. Tosteson,Brett Hanscom,Anna N. A. Tosteson,Emily A. Blood,Nancy J. O. Birkmeyer,Alan S. Hilibrand,Harry N. Herkowitz,Frank P. Cammisa,Todd J. Albert,Sanford E. Emery,Lawrence G. Lenke,William A. Abdu,Michael Longley,Thomas J. Errico,Serena S. Hu +16 more
TL;DR: In nonrandomized as-treated comparisons with careful control for potentially confounding baseline factors, patients with degenerative spondylolisthesis and spinal stenosis treated surgically showed substantially greater improvement in pain and function during a period of 2 years than patients treated nonsurgically.