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Desmond Kwok

Observed names: D Kwok, D. Kwok, DESMOND C. KWOK, Desmond C. Kwok

Institutions: Hamilton General Hospital, McMaster University Medical Centre

Observed institutions: Hamilton General Hospital, McMaster University Medical Centre, Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University, Hamilton Health Sciences, McMaster University

ORCID: 0000-0002-9722-7740

Observed ORCID: 0000-0002-9722-7740

OpenAlex ID: A5113853696

Valgus high tibial osteotomy

2001 · Anthony Adili, Mohit Bhandari, et al. · Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy · 76

A Retrospective Study of Moore and Thompson Hemiarthroplasty

1982 · DESMOND C. KWOK, RICHARD L. CRUESS · Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research · 57

Improving reliability in the classification of fractures of the acetabulum

2003 · Brad A. Petrisor, Mohit Bhandari, et al. · Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery · 45

Minimally invasive versus open surgery for cervical and lumbar discectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

2014 · N. Evaniew, M. Khan, et al. · CMAJ Open · 43

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Early Versus Delayed Operative Management of Closed Tibial Fractures

1999 · Mohit Bhandari, Anthony Adili, et al. · Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research · 32

Organ Injuries Associated with Femoral Fractures

1999 · Anthony Adili, Mohit Bhandari, et al. · 32

Atlantoaxial instability in acute odontoid fractures is associated with nonunion and mortality

2014 · Nathan Evaniew, Blake Yarascavitch, et al. · The Spine Journal · 29

2001 · Michael Boucher, Mohit Bhandari, et al. · Journal of Spinal Disorders · 19

Calcified Thoracic Disc Herniations in the Elderly: Revisiting the Laminectomy for Single Level Disease

2018 · Colby Oitment, Desmond Kwok, et al. · Global Spine Journal · 11

Fracture dislocation of the tarsal navicular

1987 · Lawrence Coughlin, Desmond Kwok, et al. · The American Journal of Sports Medicine · 5

Canadian Spine Society01.1.1: Surgery versus standardized nonoperative care for the treatment of lumbar disc herniations: a Canadian trial02.1.1: Wait times for elective spine surgery across Canada: data from the Canadian Spine Outcomes and Research Network03.1.1: Presurgical physician utilization in elective thoracolumbar spine surgery candidates: a nationwide analysis from the CSORN database04.1.2: Activities performed and treatments conducted prior to consultation with a spine surgeon: Are patients and clinicians following evidence-based clinical practice guidelines?05.1.2: Patient-reported disability versus objective physical performance measures in assessing patient recovery06.1.2: Risk factors for work status in low back pain patients: a cross-sectional analysis of patients presenting to the Ontario Inter-professional Spine Assessment and Education Clinics07.1.3: Comparison of symptomatic, functional and demographic characteristics of postsurgical versus nonoperative LBP patients08.1.3: Are primary care patients with different patterns of low back pain epidemiologically distinct?09.1.3: Lack of prognostic model validation in low back pain prediction studies10.1.4: Larger scoliosis curve magnitude is associated with increased surgical and perioperative complications: a multi-centre analysis of 1173 adolescent idiopathic scoliosis curves11.1.4: Superior extension of upper instrumented level in distraction-based surgery: a surrogate for clinically significant PJK12.1.4: The optimal surgical approach for Lenke 5 curves: Is the anterior approach ready for a comeback?13.1.5: Improving quality and safety in pediatric spine surgery: the team approach14.1.5: Posterior vertebral column resection in pediatric deformity: the advantages of staging15.1.5: Minimally invasive surgery in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: lessons learned at mean 2-year follow-up16.2.1: Development of a Canadian competency-based spine surgery fellowship education curriculum17.2.1: Computer-assisted surgery is an effective educational tool for the training of orthopedic surgery residents in pedicle screw placement18.2.1: Validation of the Calgary Spine Severity Score19.2.2: Can triaging referrals with a simple 3-item pain questionnaire reduce wait times for consultations for patients who would benefit from lumbar spinal surgery?20.2.2: Strategies to improve the credibility of meta-analyses in spine surgery: a systematic survey21.2.2: The societal cost of waiting to see a spine surgeon for lower back symptoms in Canada22.2.3: The cost of an adverse event depends on its definition and method of capture23.2.3: Economic evaluation of intraoperative cone beam CT-based navigation for the placement of spinal pedicle screws: a patient-level cost-effectiveness analysis24.2.3: Predictors of inappropriate emergency department utilization following elective thoracolumbar spine surgery25.2.4: Incidence, impact and risk factors of adverse events in thoracic and lumbar spine fractures. An ambispective cohort analysis of 390 patients26.2.4: Factors associated with adverse events in major elective spine, knee, and hip in-patient orthopedic surgery27.2.4: Prognostic factors for survival in surgical series of symptomatic metastatic epidural spinal cord compression: a prospective North American multicentre study in 142 patients28.2.5: A comparison of 2 prospective adverse event recording tools with institutional ICD-10 coding for detecting perioperative adverse events in patients undergoing spinal surgery29.2.5: Assessment of impact of long-cassette standing radiographs on surgical planning for lumbar pathology: an international survey of spine surgeons30.2.5: Long-term patient-reported outcome and surgical survivorship of MIS fusion for low-grade spondylolisthesis31.3.1: The effect of prolonged postoperative antibiotic administration on the rate of infection in patients undergoing posterior spine surgery requiring a Hemovac drain32.3.1: Preliminary results of a Phase 1 trial on the use of photodynamic therapy in vertebral metastases33.3.1: The minimal clinically important difference of the modified Japanese Orthopaedic Association score in patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy undergoing surgical intervention34.3.1: Patient and surgeon radiation exposure during spinal instrumentation using intraoperative CT-based navigation35.3.2: Are postoperative pelvic parameters and sagittal balance predictive of further lumbar surgery in patients with spinal stenosis?36.3.2: Postoperative ambulation in patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty, total knee arthroplasty and elective lumbar spine surgery to treat arthritic pathologies37.3.2 Pain on the brain: Is the SF-36 mental component summary enough?38.3.2: Accurate and safe cervical osteotomy for kyphotic deformity in ankylosing spondylitis39.3.3: Adjacent segment pathology in the lumbar spine: progressive disease or a consequence of iatrogenic fusion?40.3.3: The association of cervical spine alignment with

2015 · Chris Bailey, Alexandra Stratton, et al. · Canadian Journal of Surgery · 1

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A Canadian national survey of the medical management of acute traumatic spinal cord injury

2025 · Mohamed Alhantoobi, Nadeen AlKhoori, et al. · Journal of Spine Surgery

P.148 Consult and kyphoplasty delay impacts on geriatric vertebral compression fracture outcomes

2024 · V Surendran, V Shi, et al. · Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques

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A novel approach to patients with acute odontoid fractures: atlantoaxial instability as a prognostic variable

2015 · Nathan Evaniew, Blake Yarascavitch, et al. · The Spine Journal

Combined Spine Conference of the Canadian Spine Society New Zealand Orthopaedic Spine Society, Spine Society of Australia: Fairmont Château Lake Louise, Lake, Louise, Alberta, Tuesday, Feb. 25 to Saturday, Mar. 1, 20141.1.01 The use of suspension radiographs to predict LIV tilt.1.1.02 Surgical correction of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis without fusion: an animal model.1.1.03 Are full torso surface topography postural measurements more sensitive to change than back only parameters in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis and a main thoracic curve?1.2.04 Restoration of thoracic kyphosis in adolescent idiopathic kyphosis: comparative radiographic analysis of round versus rail rods.1.2.05 Scoliosis surgery in spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy: Is fusion to the pelvis always necessary? A 4–18-year follow-up study.1.2.06 Identification and validation of pain-related biomarkers surrounding spinal surgery in adolescents.1.3.07 Cervical sagittal deformity develops after PJK in adult throacolumbar deformity correction: radiographic analysis using a novel global sagittal angular parameter, the CTPA.1.3.08 Impact of obesity on complications and patient-reported outcomes in adult spinal deformity surgery.1.3.09 The T1 pelvic angle, a novel radiographic measure of sagittal deformity, accounts for both pelvic retroversion and truncal inclination and correlates strongly with HRQOL.1.4.10 Determining cervical sagittal deformity when it is concurrent with thoracolumbar deformity.1.4.11 The influence of sagittal balance and pelvic parameters on the outcome of surgically treated patients with degenerative spondylolisthesis.1.4.12 Predictors of degenerative spondylolisthesis and loading translation in surgical lumbar spinal stenosis patients.2.1.13 Mechanical allodynia following disc herniation requires intraneural macrophage infiltration and can be blocked by systemic selenium delivery or attenuation of BDNF activity.2.1.14 The effect of alanyl-glutamine on epidural fibrosis in a rat laminectomy model.2.1.15 Anterior lumbar interbody fusion using recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2: a prospective study of complications.2.2.16 2-year results of a Canadian, multicentre, blinded, pilot study of a novel peptide in promoting lumbar spine fusion.2.2.17 Comparative outcomes and cost-utility following surgical treatment of focal lumbar spinal stenosis compared with osteoarthritis of the hip or knee: long-term change in health-related quality of life.2.2.18 Changes in objectively measured walking performance, function, and pain following surgery for spondylolisthesis and lumbar spinal stenosis.2.3.19 A prospective multicentre observational data-monitored study of minimally invasive fusion to treat degenerative lumbar disorders: complications and outcomes at 1-year follow-up.2.3.20 Assessment and classification of subsidence in lateral interbody fusion using serial computed tomography.2.3.21 Predictors of willingness to undergo spinal and orthopaedic surgery after surgical consultation.2.4.22 Indirect foraminal decompression is independent of facet arthropathy in extreme lateral interbody fusion.2.4.23 Cervical artificial disc replacement with ProDisc-C: clinical and radiographic outcomes with long-term follow-up.2.4.24 Tantalum trabecular metal implants in anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion.3.1.25 Hemangiomas of the spine: results of surgical management and prognostic variables for local recurrence and mortality in a multicentre study.3.1.26 Chondrosarcomas of the spine: prognostic variables for local recurrence and mortality in a multicentre study.3.1.27 Risk factors for recurrence of surgically treated spine schwannomas: analysis of 169 patients from a multicentre international database.3.2.28 Survival pattern and the effect of surgery on health related quality of life and functional outcome in patients with metastatic epidural spinal cord compression from lung cancer — the AOSpine North America prospective multicentre study.3.2.29 A biomechanical assessment of kyphoplasty as a stand-alone treatment in a human cadaveric burst fracture model.3.2.30 What is safer in incompetent vertebrae with posterior wall defects, kyphoplasty or vertebroplasty: a study in vertebral analogs.3.3.31 Feasibility of recruiting subjects for acute spinal cord injury (SCI) clinical trials in Canada.3.3.32 Prospective analysis of adverse events in elderly patients with traumatic spinal cord injury.3.3.33 Does traction before surgery influence time to neural decompression in patients with spinal cord injury?3.4.34 Current treatment of individuals with traumatic spinal cord injury: Do we need age-specific guidelines?3.4.35 Current surgical practice for traumatic spinal cord injury in Canada.3.4.36 The importance of “time to surgery” for traumatic spinal cord injured patients: results from an ambispective Canadian cohort of 949 patients.3.5.37 Assessment of a novel coil-shaped radiofrequency probe in the porcine spine.3.5.38 The effect of nor

2014 · H. van West, B. Hodgson, et al. · Canadian Journal of Surgery

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Citation count: 350

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