14 articles in this issue
Francis Brooks
Back pain is a common problem and has been shown to affect approximately 85% of the adult population at any one time. The source of this pain can be difficult to identify and the sacroiliac joint (SIJ) has been proposed as a possible pain source. Its perc... see more
Jung Sub Lee
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Turgut Akgul
Anuj Jain
The incidence of tuberculosis of cervical spine is about 6-9 %. The most dreaded complications of spinal tuberculosis are neural involvement and spinal deformity. Due to destruction of the vertebra tuberculosis of spine usually leads to variable amount of... see more
Matti Scholz,Sebastiaan Schelfaut,Andreas Pingel,Philipp Schleicher,Frank Kandziora
The purpose of this prospective mono-centric case series study is to investigate the mid-term (minimum follow-up 24 months) safety and efficacy using a new “zero-profile” stand-alone cage with integrated angle-stable fixation in single- and multilevel ant... see more
Daniel Adler
Objective: When back pain persists in the course of conservatively treated osteoporotic vertebra fractures, a non-union should be considered. We thus sought to validate our diagnostic algorithm in patients with known osteoporotic vertebra fractures p... see more
Shuai Yuan,Qiang Tang,Xinjia Wang,Kangmei Kong
This retrospective study was set up to investigate the predictive value of spinal canal and dural sac dimensions for treatment decisions and clinical outcome of lumbar disc herniation by quantitative MRI measurements in 182 patients.78 nonsurgical and 50 ... see more
lin bin
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the safety, effective of the Microendoscopic Discectomy System anterior screw fixation compared wi... see more
Kyung-Jin Song,Chan-Il Park,Do-Yeon Kim,Young-Ran Jung,Kwang-Bok Lee
The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between trauma severity and the degree of cord injury in patients with ossification of posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL). Four-hundred-one patients were classified into Group A (OPLL(+)), Grou... see more
Celikoglu Erhan,Ilker Kiraz,Merih Is,Aycicek Cecen,Ali Fatih Ramazanoglu
Surgical approaches to far lateral disc herniation are challenging because of the anatomical limitations in the region. We describe an extraforaminal approach for far lateral lumbar disc herniation (FLLDH) in a group of patients and discuss the resu... see more
Omer ERSEN,Serkan Bilgic,Selahattin Ozyurek,Safak Ekinci,Kenan Koca,Erbil Oguz
The aim of the study study is to determine whether bilateral pedicle screw placement and posterior only spinal fusion improves sagittal correction parameters compared to alternate posterior segmental fixation in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. 49 patient... see more
Xiaohua Hou,Xiaowei Sun,Zhiyong Zhang,Guangyue Xie,Xifeng Zhang
David Christopher Kubosch
Standard procedure for monosegmental anterior spondylodesis often combines anterior stabilization with autologous iliac crest graft. The cross sectional area of the graft to be transplanted should be at least 23.9% of the cross sectional area of the verte... see more
Christos Koutras,Stavros Antoniou,Hansjoerg Heep
Aim of the present study was to assess the contribution of each country in the field of spine surgery. Three major spine journals were included in our study and the search conducted in PubMed for a 5-year period (2007–2012). Publications on spine sur... see more