By Laura Dyrda
The Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery awarded Neel Anand, MD, clinical professor of surgery and director of spine trauma at Cedars-Sinai Spine in Los Angeles, a the “Global Forum Best Paper Award.”
Dr. Anand’s paper was titled “Analysis of the 10 best and 10 worst functional outcomes of Circumferential Minimally Invasive Surgical correction of Adult Spinal Deformity.”
The award was presented at the annual meeting in Las Vegas last week. The study examined outcomes for CMIS correction of adult spinal deformity. The single-center study included data from a prospective database for patients who underwent surgical correction at 10 or more levels. The researchers found:
