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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2025

The Paraspinal Sarcopenia at the Upper Instrumented Vertebra Is a Predictor of Discoligamentous but Not Bony Proximal Junctional Kyphosis.

Zach Pennington, Anthony L Mikula, Abdelrahman Hamouda, Maria Astudillo Potes, Ahmad Nassr, Brett A Freedman, Arjun S Sebastian, Jeremy L Fogelson, Benjamin D Elder

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Zach PenningtonDepartment of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8012-860X
Anthony L MikulaDepartment of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
Abdelrahman HamoudaDepartment of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.ORCID 0009-0007-3609-7229
Maria Astudillo PotesDepartment of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
Ahmad NassrDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
Brett A FreedmanDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
Arjun S SebastianDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
Jeremy L FogelsonDepartment of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
Benjamin D ElderDepartment of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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adult spinal deformitybone qualityHounsfield unitsproximal junctional kyphosissarcopeniavertebral bone quality (VBQ)

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PMID40004738
PMCPMC11857086

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