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Harry N. Herkowitz
Researcher at Beaumont Hospital
Publications - 149
Citations - 14107
Harry N. Herkowitz is an academic researcher from Beaumont Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Spinal stenosis & Spondylolisthesis. The author has an hindex of 54, co-authored 149 publications receiving 13132 citations. Previous affiliations of Harry N. Herkowitz include Dartmouth College & Wayne State University.
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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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Degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis with spinal stenosis. A prospective study comparing decompression with decompression and intertransverse process arthrodesis.
Harry N. Herkowitz,L T Kurz +1 more
TL;DR: In the patients who had had a concomitant arthrodesis, the results were significantly better with respect to relief of pain in the back and lower limbs.
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1997 Volvo Award winner in clinical studies. Degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis with spinal stenosis: a prospective, randomized study comparing decompressive laminectomy and arthrodesis with and without spinal instrumentation.
Jeffrey S. Fischgrund,Michael A. Mackay,Harry N. Herkowitz,Richard S. Brower,David M. Montgomery,Lawrence T. Kurz +5 more
TL;DR: In patients undergoing single‐level posterolateral fusion for degenerative spondylolisthesis with spinal stenosis, the use of pedicle screws may lead to a higher fusion rate, but clinical outcome shows no improvement in pain in the back and lower limbs.
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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.
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Surgical vs nonoperative treatment for lumbar disk herniation: the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) observational cohort
James Neil Weinstein,Jon D. Lurie,Tor D. Tosteson,Jonathan Skinner,Brett Hanscom,Anna N. A. Tosteson,Harry N. Herkowitz,Jeffrey S. Fischgrund,Frank P. Cammisa,Todd J. Albert,Richard A. Deyo +10 more
TL;DR: Patients with persistent sciatica from lumbar disk herniation improved in both operated and usual care groups, and those who chose operative intervention reported greater improvements than patients who elected nonoperative care.