Dr. Kaveh Khajavi, M.D. was awarded for excellence at the annual Montague Boyd Publishing Awards during the Quarterly Medical Staff Meeting at Piedmont Atlanta Hospital on Monday, June 9 2014. Dr. Khajavi won Best Original Study for his article entitled, “Adult Degenerative Scoliosis Treated with XLIF.” The study was published in the journal, SPINE: Volume 38, Number 21, pp 1853-1861.
The objective of the study was to evaluate the clinical and radiographical results of patients undergoing extreme lateral interbody fusion (XLIF), a minimally disruptive lateral transpsoas retroperitoneal surgical approach for the treatment of degenerative scoliosis.
Please click on the link below to read the article: Adult_Degenerative_Scoliosis_Treated_With_XLIF_.16