Dr. Andrew A Sama MD
Orthopedist | Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine
535 East 70 St New York NY, 10021About
Dr. Andrew Sama specializes in the evaluation and surgical management of all traumatic, degenerative, and deformity-related conditions of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbosacral spine. Board certified ...
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Orthopaedic SurgeryAmerican Board of Orthopaedic SurgeryABOS
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Alendronate inhibits spine fusion in a rat model.
- Parathyroid hormone (1-34) augments spinal fusion, fusion mass volume, and fusion mass quality in a rabbit spinal fusion model.
- Lateral lumbar interbody fusion: clinical and radiographic outcomes at 1 year: a preliminary report.
- Conventional manual discectomy versus powered discectomy for interbody fusion in the lumbar spine: cadaveric testing in forty levels.
- Risk factors for postoperative infection following posterior lumbar instrumented arthrodesis.
- Indirect foraminal decompression after lateral transpsoas interbody fusion.
- Influence of surgical experience on the efficiency of discectomy in TLIF: a cadaveric testing in 40 levels.
- Factors predictive of voice and swallowing outcomes after anterior approaches to the cervical spine.
- Multivariate analysis on risk factors for postoperative ileus after lateral lumbar interbody fusion.
- Paresis of the L5 nerve root after reduction of low-grade lumbosacral dysplastic spondylolisthesis: a case report.
- Cost-utility analyses in spine care: a qualitative and systematic review.
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