Dear Colleagues,
It is my honor, once again, to have the privilege of producing our professional journal for you. This is the 2nd issue of the year, and. I am deeply grateful to all the authors, reviewers, assistant editors, secretaries, and the Galenos publishing team for the efforts they contributed to getting it published. We are thrilled to announce that JTSS is currently indexed in eleven indices; Scopus, Ulakbim, Türkiye Atıf Dizini, J-Gate, ProQuest, Gale Cengage Learning, Embase, EBSCO Host, Türk Medline, Ideal Online and China Knowledge Resource Integrated.
In this issue, you will find eight clinical research studies. The first is a retrospective clinical study which examines the “Mid-term Results of Young Adult Patients Who Underwent Autograft and Direct Pars Repair Using U-rod Technique for Lumbar Spondylolysis”. The second is a study that discusses “Lumbar Spondylolysis: Are Ancillary Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings Useful in Diagnosis?”. The third is entitled, “The Impacts of Instrumented Posterior Fusion Surgery on Pulmonary Volume and Function in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis”. The fourth is about the “Intermediate to Long-Term Clinical and Radiological Results of Cervical Disc Prosthesis: A Comparative Study with Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion”. The authors of the fifth study looked at an “Intraoperative Evaluation of Spinal Coronal Alignment via T-square Shaped Tool in Thoracolumbar Instrumentation”. The sixth study is entitled, “A Rare Cause of Postpartum Lower Back Pain: Sacrum Stress Fractures” while, in the seventh, the authors evaluated “Who Is More Successful in a Spinal Surgery Examination? ChatGPT-3.5/4.0 or an Orthopedic Resident?” The eighth article discusses “Warming Patients During Spinal Surgery.”
I hope that each of you value these articles and the information that they contain, and that you find the insights they provide valuable to your daily practices. Our goal is to keep you on the cutting edge of all the latest developments in your respective fields. It is my sincere hope that this newsletter helps make this happen.
With kindest regards,
Editor in Chief
Metin Özalay, M.D.,
