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Composite PEEK/Carbon fiber implants can increase the effectiveness of radiotherapy in the management of spine tumors

The CFR-PEEK fixation system is comparable to standard titanium system in term of intraoperative complications, stability at weight bearing and at functional recovery. Thanks to radiolucency CFR-PEEK stabilization devices are more suitable in patients eligible for RT: the absence of image artifacts together with significantly less dose perturbation improve the treatment accuracy. Moreover the radiolucency is useful in the follow-up of patients thus allowing early detection of LR.

Lateral lumbar interbody fusion with unilateral pedicle screw fixation for the treatment of adjacent segment disease: a preliminary report

This pilot study suggests that patients who undergo LLIF with unilateral pedicle screw fixation for treatment of ASD may have significantly reduced pain and favorable radiographic results. Further investigation in techniques for treatment of ASD is warranted.

Utilization of vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty procedures throughout the United States over a recent decade: an analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample

Since the publication of two double-blind, prospective randomized controlled trials showed no benefit of vertebroplasty over a sham procedure, there has been a significant decrease in both kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty procedures.

Morphometric anatomy of the lumbar sympathetic trunk with respect to the anterolateral approach to lumbar interbody fusion: a cadaver study

Right anterior to psoas approach. The lumbar sympathetic trunk has been approached from the right, for experimental purposes. Cranially, the great vessel space has been dissected out, and the inferior vena cava is being retracted caudally. The right lumbar sympathetic trunk can be seen anterior to the segmental lumbar artery, but posterior to the segmental lumbar vein.

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Vol 4, No 2 (June, 2018)

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Original Study

Minimally invasive stabilization of the fractured ankylosed spine: a comparative case series study

Francis Brooks, Matthew Rackham, Ben Williams, Deb Roy, Yu Chao Lee, Michael Selby

PDF Pages: 168-172 Full Text

The combined administration of vancomycin IV, standard prophylactic antibiotics, and vancomycin powder in spinal instrumentation surgery: does the routine use affect infection rates and bacterial resistance?

Howard Young Park, William Sheppard, Ryan Smith, Jiayang Xiao, Jonathan Gatto, Richard Bowen, Anthony Scaduto, Langston Holly, Daniel Lu, Duncan McBride, Arya Nick Shamie, Don Young Park

PDF Pages: 173-179 Full Text

Biomechanical evaluation of interbody fixation with secondary augmentation: lateral lumbar interbody fusion versus posterior lumbar interbody fusion

Jakub Godzik, Samuel Kalb, Marco T. Reis, Phillip M. Reyes, Vaneet Singh, Anna G. U. S. Newcomb, Steve W. Chang, Brian P. Kelly, Neil R. Crawford

PDF Pages: 180-186 Full Text

Accuracy of robot-assisted pedicle screw insertion in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: is triggered electromyographic pedicle screw stimulation necessary?

K. Aaron Shaw, Joshua S. Murphy, Dennis P. Devito

PDF Pages: 187-194 Full Text

A psoas splitting approach developed for outpatient lateral interbody fusion versus a standard transpsoas approach

Kingsley R. Chin, Fabio J. R. Pencle, Morgan D. Brown, Jason A. Seale

PDF Pages: 195-202 Full Text

Differences in primary and revision deformity surgeries: following 1,063 primary thoracolumbar adult spinal deformity fusions over time

Gregory W. Poorman, Peter L. Zhou, Dennis Vasquez-Montes, Samantha Horn, Cole Bortz, Frank Segreto, Joshua Auerbach, John Y. Moon, Jared C. Tishelman, Michael C. Gerling, Bassel G. Diebo, Rafael De La Garza-Ramos, Justin C. Paul, Peter G. Passias

PDF Pages: 203-210 Full Text

Utilization of intraoperative neuromonitoring throughout the United States over a recent decade: an analysis of the nationwide inpatient sample

Joseph L. Laratta, Jamal N. Shillingford, Alex Ha, Joseph M. Lombardi, Hemant P. Reddy, Comron Saifi, Steven C. Ludwig, Ronald A. Lehman, Lawrence G. Lenke

PDF Pages: 211-219 Full Text

Post-operative drain use in patients undergoing decompression and fusion: incidence of complications and symptomatic hematoma

Owoicho Adogwa, Aladine A. Elsamadicy, Amanda R. Sergesketter, Ronnie L. Shammas, Sohrab Vatsia, Victoria D. Vuong, Syed Khalid, Joseph Cheng, Carlos A. Bagley, Isaac O. Karikari

PDF Pages: 220-226 Full Text

The use of subfascial drains after multi-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: does the data support its use?

Owoicho Adogwa, Syed I. Khalid, Aladine A. Elsamadicy, Victoria D. Voung, Daniel T. Lilly, Shyam A. Desai, Amanda R. Sergesketter, Joseph Cheng, Isaac O. Karikari

PDF Pages: 227-232 Full Text

Incidence and risk factors of wound complications in long segment instrumented thoracolumbar spinal fusions: a retrospective study

Cindy R. Nahhas, Kimberly Hu, Ankit I. Mehta

PDF Pages: 233-240 Full Text

Non-neurological outcomes of anterior and posterolateral approaches in the surgical treatment of thoracic disc disease: a retrospective study

Cindy R. Nahhas, Justin K. Scheer, Syed I. Khalid, Owoicho Adogwa, Gregory D. Arnone, Abhiraj D. Bhimani, Pouyan Kheirkhah, Ankit I. Mehta

PDF Pages: 241-246 Full Text

Neurologic adverse event avoidance in lateral lumbar interbody fusion: technical considerations using muscle relaxants

Guy R. Fogel, Laurence Rosen, Jayme Carolynn Burket Koltsov, Ivan Cheng

PDF Pages: 247-253 Full Text

Limited post-operative dexamethasone use does not affect lumbar fusion: a single institutional experience

Owoicho Adogwa, Victoria D. Vuong, Daniel T. Lilly, Shyam A. Desai, Ryan Khanna, Shahjehan Ahmad, Josha Woodward, Syed Khalid, Joseph Cheng

PDF Pages: 254-259 Full Text

The impact of insurance coverage on access to orthopedic spine care

Dale N. Segal, Zachary J. Grabel, Weilong J. Shi, Michael B. Gottschalk, Scott D. Boden

PDF Pages: 260-263 Full Text

Discharge to skilled-care or rehabilitation following elective anterior cervical discectomy and fusion increases the risk of 30-day re-admissions and post-discharge complications

Azeem Tariq Malik, Nikhil Jain, Elizabeth Yu, Jeffery Kim, Safdar N. Khan

PDF Pages: 264-273 Full Text

Hypothyroidism increases 90-day postoperative complications in patients undergoing primary single level anterior cervical disectomy and fusion: a matched control analysis

Rushabh M. Vakharia, Ajit M. Vakharia, Bijan Ameri, Timothy Niedzielak, Chester J. Donnally III, John P. Malloy IV

PDF Pages: 274-280 Full Text

Length of stay associated with posterior cervical fusion with intervertebral cages: experience from a device registry

Kris Siemionow, William Smith, Mark Gillespy, Bruce M. McCormack, Mukund I. Gundanna, Jon E. Block

PDF Pages: 281-286 Full Text

Complications associated with intrathecal morphine in spine surgery: a retrospective study

Arif Pendi, Yu-Po Lee, Saif Al-Deen B. Farhan, Frank L. Acosta, S. Samuel Bederman, Ronald Sahyouni, Elias R. Gerrick, Nitin N. Bhatia

PDF Pages: 287-294 Full Text

Evaluating cervical deformity corrective surgery outcomes at 1-year using current patient-derived and functional measures: are they adequate?

Peter G. Passias, Samantha R. Horn, Cheongeun Oh, Subaraman Ramchandran, Douglas C. Burton, Virginie Lafage, Renaud Lafage, Gregory W. Poorman, Leah Steinmetz, Frank A. Segreto, Cole A. Bortz, Justin S. Smith, Christopher Ames, Christopher I. Shaffrey, Han Jo Kim, Alexandra Soroceanu, Eric O. Klineberg, International Spine Study Group (ISSG)

PDF Pages: 295-303 Full Text

Thirty-day complication and readmission rates associated with resection of metastatic spinal tumors: a single institutional experience

Aladine A. Elsamadicy, Owoicho Adogwa, David T. Lubkin, Amanda R. Sergesketter, Sohrab Vatsia, Eric W. Sankey, Joseph Cheng, Carlos A. Bagley, Isaac O. Karikari

PDF Pages: 304-310 Full Text

View of U.S. spine surgeons regarding cost reduction measures

Arif Pendi, Saif Al-Deen B. Farhan, Darren Raphael, Joseph B. Rinehart, Zeev N. Kain, S. Samuel Bederman

PDF Pages: 311-318 Full Text

Utilization of the 3D-printed spine model for freehand pedicle screw placement in complex spinal deformity correction

Lee A. Tan, Ketan Yerneni, Alexander Tuchman, Xudong J. Li, Meghan Cerpa, Ronald A. Lehman Jr, Lawrence G. Lenke

PDF Pages: 319-327 Full Text

Kyphoplasty patient-centered outcomes via questionnaire

Daniel Carr, Richard Cook, Doris Tong, Matthew Bahoura, Jennifer Kanack, Alicja Sobilo, Stephanie Falatko, Beverly C. Walters, Ryan Barrett

PDF Pages: 328-332 Full Text

Incidence and predictors of all-cause mortality within one year after adult spinal deformity surgery

Scott L. Zuckerman, Nikita Lakomkin, Justin S. Smith, Christopher I. Shaffrey, Clinton J. Devin

PDF Pages: 333-341 Full Text

Cervical sagittal alignment and the impact of posterior spinal instrumented fusion in patients with Lenke type 1 adolescent idiopathic scoliosis

Ryan J. Berger, Assem A. Sultan, Joseph E. Tanenbaum, William A. Cantrell, David P. Gurd, Thomas E. Kuivila, Thomas E. Mroz, Michael P. Steinmetz, Ryan C. Goodwin

PDF Pages: 342-348 Full Text

A single center retrospective clinical evaluation of anterior cervical discectomy and fusion comparing allograft spacers to silicon nitride cages

Micah W. Smith, Daniel R. Romano, Bryan J. McEntire, B. Sonny Bal

PDF Pages: 349-360 Full Text

Surgical management of U/H type sacral fractures: outcomes following iliosacral and lumbopelvic fixation

Meghan Kelly, Jun Zhang, Catherine A. Humphrey, John T. Gorczyca, Addisu Mesfin

PDF Pages: 361-367 Full Text

Timing of surgery and radiotherapy in the management of metastatic spine disease: expert opinion

Robert S. Lee, Juliet Batke, Lorna Weir, Nicolas Dea, Charles G. Fisher

PDF Pages: 368-373 Full Text

Case series of posterior instrumentation for repair of burst lumbar vertebral body fractures with entrapped neural elements

Haider Kareem, Muhammad Hasan Raza, Vassilios Kontojannis, Amr Nimer, Kevin Tsang

PDF Pages: 374-382 Full Text

A review of 571 radiographs on Tuffier’s inter-cristal line and its’ application in lumbar spinal surgery

Ahmed Chowdhury, Himanshu Sharma

PDF Pages: 383-387 Full Text

The impact of urgent intervention on the neurologic recovery in patients with thoracolumbar fractures

José Ramírez-Villaescusa, Jesús López-Torres Hidalgo, David Ruiz-Picazo, Antonio Martin-Benlloch, Pedro Torres-Lozano, Eloy Portero-Martinez

PDF Pages: 388-396 Full Text

Delayed surgery in neurologically intact patients affected by thoraco-lumbar junction burst fractures: to reduce pain and improve quality of life

Lorenzo Nigro, Roberto Tarantino, Pasquale Donnarumma, Marika Rullo, Antonio Santoro, Roberto Delfini

PDF Pages: 397-402 Full Text

The K-line in the cervical ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament is different on plain radiographs and CT images

Yasushi Ijima, Takeo Furuya, Mitsutoshi Ota, Satoshi Maki, Junya Saito, Mitsuhiro Kitamura, Takuya Miyamoto, Seiji Ohtori, Sumihisa Orita, Kazuhide Inage, Takane Suzuki, Masashi Yamazaki, Masao Koda

PDF Pages: 403-407 Full Text

Microendoscope-assisted posterior lumbar interbody fusion: a technical note

Hirohiko Inanami, Fumiko Saiki, Yasushi Oshima

PDF Pages: 408-413 Full Text

The effectiveness of non-surgical treatments, re-discectomy and minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion in postdiscectomy pain syndrome

Mehmet Nuri Erdem, Halil Yener Erken, Mehmet Aydogan

PDF Pages: 414-422 Full Text

Review Article

Ultrasound diagnosis and therapeutic intervention in the spine

Adil S. Ahmed, Raahul Ramakrishnan, Vignesh Ramachandran, Shyam S. Ramachandran, Kevin Phan, Erik L. Antonsen

PDF Pages: 423-432 Full Text

Effects of spaceflight on cartilage: implications on spinal physiology

Vignesh Ramachandran, Ruifei Wang, Shyam S. Ramachandran, Adil S. Ahmed, Kevin Phan, Erik L. Antonsen

PDF Pages: 433-445 Full Text

Spinal arachnoid web—a review article

Haitham Ben Ali, Preci Hamilton, Stefan Zygmunt, Kamal Makram Yakoub

PDF Pages: 446-450 Full Text

The evolution of partial undercutting facetectomy in the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis

Derek T. Cawley, Ravi Shenoy, Adam Benton, Senthil Muthian, Susanne Selvadurai, John R. Johnson, Sean Molloy

PDF Pages: 451-455 Full Text

Spine surgery registries: hope for evidence-based spinal care?

Maryem Ismael, Jorge Hugo Villafañe, Federico Cabitza, Giuseppe Banfi, Pedro Berjano

PDF Pages: 456-458 Full Text

Editorial

The transperitoneal approach for anterior lumbar interbody fusion at L5−S1: a technical note

Joseph L. Laratta, Eric G. Davis, Steven D. Glassman, John R. Dimar

PDF Pages: 459-460 Full Text

Anti-directional cervical intervertebral motion: could it have gone any other way?

Alan Breen

PDF Pages: 461-464 Full Text

Will a low-dose biplanar radiograph become “gold standard” for three-dimensional assessment of spinal deformity in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis?

Yu Yamato, Yukihiro Matsuyama

PDF Pages: 465-466 Full Text

Editorial on “Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion using polyetheretherketone oblique cages with and without a titanium coating: a randomised clinical pilot study”

Kristian Høy, Haisheng Li

PDF Pages: 467-470 Full Text

Case Report

Permanent implantation of antibiotic cement over exposed instrumentation eradicates deep spinal infection

Joseph L. Laratta, Joseph M. Lombardi, Jamal N. Shillingford, Hemant P. Reddy, Borys V. Gvozdyev, Yong J. Kim

PDF Pages: 471-477 Full Text

Disc herniation caused by a viscoelastic nucleus after total lumbar disc replacement—a case report

Lukas Grassner, Andreas Grillhösl, Michael Bierschneider, Martin Strowitzki

PDF Pages: 478-482 Full Text

Percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy via adjacent interlaminar space for highly down-migrated lumbar disc herniation: a technical report

Yasushi Inomata, Yasushi Oshima, Hirokazu Inoue, Yuichi Takano, Hirohiko Inanami, Hisashi Koga

PDF Pages: 483-489 Full Text

Spinal extradural angiolipoma: a report of two cases and review of literature

Xiang Yang, Seidu A. Richard, Chuanfen Lei, Jiagang Liu, Siqing Huang

PDF Pages: 490-495 Full Text

Below are the latest Journal of Spine Surgery articles published online ahead of print publication.

Original Study

Transdural lumbar disc herniation: experiences often ten cases with review of literature

Ayman Elsayed Galhom, Mohamed Elhadi

Outcomes and revision rates following multilevel anterior cervical discectomy and fusion

Joseph L. Laratta, Hemant P. Reddy, Kelly R. Bratcher, Katlyn E. McGraw, Leah Y. Carreon, R. Kirk Owens II

Microendoscopic discectomy (MED) for lumbar disc herniation: comparison of learning curve of the surgery and outcome with other established case studies

Kodeeswaran Marappan, Ranganathan Jothi, Sherina Paul Raj

A less invasive surgery using a full-endoscopic system for L5 nerve root compression caused by lumbar foraminal stenosis

Katsuhiko Ishibashi, Yasushi Oshima, Hirokazu Inoue, Yuichi Takano, Hiroki Iwai, Hirohiko Inanami, Hisashi Koga

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is an independent predictor for 30-day readmissions following 1- to 2-level posterior lumbar fusions

Azeem Tariq Malik, Nikhil Jain, Jeffery Kim, Safdar N. Khan, Elizabeth Yu

Chordoma of the mobile spine and sacrum: clinical management and prognosis

Taylor D’Amore, Brendan Boyce, Addisu Mesfin

Surgical management of spinal fractures in ankylosing spondylitis

Etka Kurucan, David N. Bernstein, Addisu Mesfin

Utility of the claw sign in spine magnetic nuclear resonance with diffusion to differentiate Modic type I changes for degenerative disease versus infection

Juan Esteban Muñoz Montoya, Carlos Pérez Cataño, Angela María Tapicha Cuellar, Maria Paula Vargas Osorio, Jimar Rivero Cano, Juan Carlos Luque Suarez, Marco Luciano Charry Lopez