Proceedings

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Lumbar Fusion

A Prospective Randomised Trial to Compare the Efficacy of Demineralized Bone Matrix (Accell Connexus®) and Autograft in Lumbar Spinal Fusion

A Retrospective Chart Review of 70 Patients that Underwent a One-Level Extreme Lateral Interbody Fusion to Help Determine the Feasibility of Outpatient Minimally Invasive Lumbar Fusions

Usefulness of Stand-alone PLIF with Ray TFC: Perioperative Complications and 5-Year Follow-up in 103 Cases

Subsidence after PLIF in Patients with Age over 60: Comparison of the Results with PEEK Cage and Autogenous Tricortical Bone Graft

Clinical Outcomes in Elderly Patients Receiving Lumbar Spine Fusion Surgery

Spinal Fusion in Obese and Morbidly Obese Patients

Platelet Concentrate Enhances Fusion Rates for Two Level Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion

Failure Back Surgery Syndrome - Treatment by Anterior Arthrodesis: About 248 Cases

A Retrospective Study of Spinal Instrumentation in 417 Patients Using Universal MultiAxis (UNIMAX) Pedicle Screw and Plate System

The Benefit of Hydroxyapatite-Augmented Pedicle Screw Fixation in Degenerative Spondylolisthesis Patients with Osteoporosis

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Epidemiology/Etiology and Medical Management

Bone Mineral Density of Patients Who Undergo Surgery for Degenerative Lumbar Disease is Higher than Average in Femoral Neck and Lumbar Spine

Is Early Interventions Necessary for Occult Osteoporotic Vertebral Fractures?

Incidence of Vertebral Fracture and Its Impact on Sagittal Spinal Alignment in a Female Cohort

Risk Factors for Spinal Osteoporosis as Compared with Femoral Osteoporosis in Urban Iranian Women

Floor-to-Waist Weight and Resistance Training Volume are Better Predictors of Functional Outcome than Core Training Volume in Workers´ Compensation Lumbar Fusion Patients

Efficacy of Tricalcium Phosphate and Hydroxyapatite (CP/HA) Grafts for Interbody Fusion after Anterior Cervical Discectomy

Evaluation of Neck Pain in Triathletes

Comparing the Outcome of Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection Between Extraforaminal and Sequestered Lumbar Disc Herniations - One Year Prospective Longitudinal Study

Examination of the Therapeutic Effect of an Engineered Transcription Promoting Activation of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor In Spinal Cord Injury

Spinal Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas: Clinical Experience with Endovascular Treatment as a Primary Therapeutic Modality

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Thoracic - Deformity/Thoracic and Lumbar Degenerative

Dealing With Thoracic Insufficiency: A New Perspective

Intraoperative Halofemoral Traction in the Treatment of Severe Scoliosis (>100º)

Screw, Hook, Wire: A Retrospective Comparison in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis

XLIF For Lumbar Degenerative Scoliosis (LDE) Outcomes Of Minimally-Invasive Surgical Treatment out to 40 Months Postoperatively

Results of One Stage Thoracoscopic Spinal Release and Posterior Osteotomies for Correction of Kyphotic Deformity in Ankylosing Spondylitis

Is Anterior Release Beneficial in AIS Curves Between 60 and 90°? A Matched Pair Analysis

Anterior Thoracoscopic Release VAT with Posterior Instrumentation for Correction of Thoracolumbar Scoliosis

Considerations for Insertion of Vertebral Screws in Anterior Scoliosis Surgery

Surgical Treatment of Severe Spinal Kyphosis in Children and Adolescents

Vertebral Osteotomy in Congenital Kyphoscoliosis at Four Levels

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Lumbar Dynamic System

Long Term Clinical Result of Dynamic Stabilization in Degenerative Lumbar Disease

Posterior Dynamic Stablilzation Between Interlaminar or Interspinous Processes Using Nitinol Shape Memory Loops for Lumbar Stenosis Surgery

Radiographic and Functional Outcomes of Dynamic Stabilization of the Lumbar Spine: Two Year Follow-up

Retrospective Clinical Study of 80 Patients Treated with Rigid versus Semi-rigid Systems for Lumbar and Lumbosacral Fixation

Evaluation of the TOPS™ Total Posterior Arthroplasty Device in the Treatment of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: A Prospective Study Of 33 Patients

Clinical and Radiological Experience after 24 Months Follow-up using TOPS™ Total Lumbar Facet Replacement System

Total Facet Arthroplasty in the Treatment of Spinal Stenosis: Results from an Ongoing IDE Clinical Trial

Three Year Results of a New Dynamic Stabilisation System (Wallis Interspinous Implant) in Degenerative Lumbar Spine Disease

Dynamic Interspinous Stabilization with Coflex Device in the Treatment of Symptomatic Lumbar Spinal Stenosis- Minimum One- Year Follow-up

Effects Of “Interspinous-U” on Posterior Stabilization of the Lumbar Spine Following Decompressive Surgery in Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: Minimum 27-month Follow-up

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Vertebroplasty - Kyphoplasty

Transpedicle Body Augmenter (TpBA) Vertebroplasty in Multiple Osteoporotic Compression Fractures

Percutaneous Vertebroplasty: Clinical and Radiological Comparative Analysis Between the Posterolateral and the Transpedicular Approach

An International, Multicenter, Randomized Comparison of Balloon Kyphoplasty and Non-surgical Management for the Treatment of Painful, Acute Vertebral Body Compression Fractures

Two-Year Prospective Follow-up after Balloon Kyphoplasty in the Treatment of Osteoporotic Fractures in the Thoracic and Lumbar Spine

A Novel Technique for Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures: StaXx™FX

Short and Long-term Results of Vertebroplasty and Kypholasty Performed by a Less Invasive Technique

Clinical and Radiographic Results of Unilateral Balloon Kyphoplasty for the Treatment of Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures

One-Year Prospective Follow-up of Balloon Kyphoplasty in Combination with Posterior Instrumentation in Osteoporotic Patients with Traumatic Fractures of the Thoracic and Lumbar Spine

Cortoplasty – Treating Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures with Cortoss: Preliminary Considerations from the First Prospective, Randomized Clinical Trial at a Single Institution

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Anatomy, Physiology & Biology

FGF-2 Maintains the Differentiation Potential of Nucleus Pulposus Cells

Is HPLL a Pre-stage of OPLL? Immunohistochemical Study

Behaviour of BMP-2 in a Critically Sized Bone Defect, An Animal Study

The Effects of Magnesium Particles on Posterolateral Spinal Fusion: An Experimental In Vivo Study in a Sheep Model

Osteogenesis of the Human Ligamentum Flavum by Demineralized Bone Matrix

Synovium From Degenerated Facet Induces Osteogenesis of Ligamentum Flavum

Targeting the Glial Scar to Enhance Repair and Regeneration of the Injured Spinal Cord: Implications for the Clinical Translation of Cellular Based Repair Strategies

Neuroanatomy of the Sacrococcygeal Area

Anatomic Variance of Interfacet Distance and Its Relationship to Facet Arthrosis and Degenerative Disc Disease In The Lumbar Spine: A Cadaveric Study of 446 Specimens

Morphometric Characteristics of Cervical Sympathetic Chain: A Cadaveric Study

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Trauma, Cervical and Lumbar

Transpedicular Balloon-Assisted Reduction with Calcium Phosphate Reconstruction for Thoracolumbar Burst Fractures with and without Neurologic Deficit—Is Corpectomy Still Warranted?

Percutaneous Reduction and Stabilization of Thoracolumbar Fractures without Neurological Deficit: A New Technique

Posterior Instrumentation of Thoracolumbar Burst Fractures

Comparison of Pain Intensity and Kyphosis Between Two-Segment Combined Instrumentation and Fusion Versus Three-segment Posterior Instrumentation and Fusion in Thoracolumbar Burst Fractures

Posterolateral Corpectomy of Thoracolumbar Fractures

Clinical Outcomes of Vertebroplasty Combined with Posterolateral Fusion for Osteoporotic Vertebral Collapse Causing Spinal Cord Compression: A Minimum Two-Year Follow-up

Anterior and Posterior Column Reconstruction by Subtotal Vertebrectomy via Posterior Only Approach in Osteoporotic Fractures of the Spine Causing Neurologic Injury

Spine Missile Injuries: A Series of 127 Cases

Surgical Treatment of Upper Cervical Spinal Injury

Spontaneous Reduction of Atlantoaxial Rotatory Fixation

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Diagnostics, Imaging and Spinal Cord Injury

Transplantation of Adult Neural Precursor Cells Restores the Axonal Molecular Structure and Function in Dysmyelinated Axons: Potential Application for Neurotrauma and Demyelinating Diseases

Promotion of Spinal Cord Repair and Regeneration in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy by Targeting the Fas Pathway

Functional Recovery after Transplantation of Human Adipose Tissue-derived Stromal Cells into Rat Contusion Model of Thoracic Spinal Cord Injury

New Insights into Myelin-Axon Interactions: Implications for Understanding Spinal Cord White Matter Dysfunction after Neurotrauma

A New Laboratory Test for Diagnosis of Ankylosing Spondylitis with Estimation of Serum Sialic Acid and Glycosaminoglycans

Radiographic Evaluation of Instability in Thoracolumbar and/or Lumbar Vertebral Pseudoarthrosis

Correlation of Pedicle Diameter on Radiographs and Computed Tomography Scans in Thoracolumbar Fractures

Effect of Intervertebral Disc Height on Postoperative Motion Following Lumbar Disc Replacement

Wild Wide Web: Internet in Obtaining Information on Degenerative Lumbar Spine Disease and Its Influence on Decision Making

Results of the Cethrin Phase I/IIa Prospective Clinical Trial of a Recombinant Rho Inhibitor for the Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury

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Lumbar Disc Replacement

Factors Influencing on the Segmental Range of Motion Following Total Disc Replacement with ProDisc-L: Minimum 2-year Follow-up

Prospective Randomized Series Comparing Maverick™ Lumbar Total Disc Replacement (TDR) with Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (ALIF)

Total Disc Replacement and Fusion at Different Lumbar Levels in the Same Patient

Kineflex Lumbar Disc Prosthesis: Two Year Clinical Results and Radiological Placement Accuracy in 100 Patients

Single and Two-level Total Lumbar Disc Replacement Clinical Results with Follow-up of Two to Four Years

Early Clinical Results with the Intrinsic Therapeutics Barricaid® Annular Repair Device - Comparison to a Prospective Control Group

Lateral Lumbar Total Disc Replacement (LTDR) Using Minimally Invasive Lateral Approach (XLIF): Clinical and Radiological Results after 16 Months Follow-Up

Prospective Randomized Series Comparing Kineflex™ and Charité™ Lumbar Total Disc Replacement

Total Disc Arthroplasty in Extruded Disc with Neurological Deficits

Multilevel Total Lumbar Disc Replacement for Symptomatic Disc Disease

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Cervical Deformity, Cervical and Thoracic Degenerative

Management of Atlantoaxial Basilar Compression by Transoral Odontoidenctomy with Wide Resection C2 Body and Craniocervical C0-C3 Posterior Fusion

Comparison of Posterior C1-2 Transarticular Screw Fixation with C1 Lateral Mass and C2 Pedicular Screw Fixation in Atlantoaxial Instability Patients

Occipitocervical Fixation with Spinal Instrumentation Evolution of Methods to Shorter Fixation Using Stronger Anchor Screws

Surgical Management of Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy

Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy Treated by Oblique Corpectomy: A Prospective Study

Efficacy of Lateral Position on Minimally Invasive Cervical Expansive Open-door Laminoplasty

Thoracic Meylopathy Secondary To Ossified Ligamentum Flavum

Clinical Outcomes and Complications of Circumferential Spinal Cord Decompression through Posterior Approach for Thoracic Myelopathy Caused by Ossification of Posterior Longitudinal Ligament

Thoracic Ligaments Ossification in the Patients with Cervical Ossification of Posterior Longitudinal Ligaments (OPLL) Tandem Ossification

Surgical Treatment of Thoracic Spinal Stenosis

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Tumor, Thoracic and Lumbar

Thyroid Cancer Spinal Metastases: Extended Experience

Surgical Approach to Thoracolumbar Metastatic Tumors

Total En Bloc Spondylectomy and Anterior Column Reconstruction Using Expandable Cage in Thoracolumbar Vertebral Body Tumors

Differences Between Thoracic Extracavitary Approach and Costotransversectomy in the Visual Angle and Vertebral Area Exposed

Surgical Treatment of Tumors of the Cervical Spine with Ceramic Implants

Aneurysmal Bone Cysts of the Spine: Report of 14 Cases

Is Surgical Decompression Followed by Radiotherapy Cost-Effective Compared to Radiotherapy Alone in the Palliative Care of Patients with Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression?

Clinical Analysis of Spinal Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Benign Spine Tumors CyberKnife Radiosurgery for Spine Tumors

Surgical Outcome of Spinal Canal Meningiomas

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Cervical Surgery - Fusion

Predictive Value of Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring During Cervical Spine Surgery: Prospective Series of 1055 Patients

Stability of Clinical Outcomes in Elderly Patients Receiving Cervical Spine Surgery

Anterior Cervical Discectomy with or without Grafting: Meta-analysis

Clinical Outcome in Patients Undergoing Multilevel Anterior Decompressions with or without Fusion

Clinical and Radiological Outcome after Three-Level Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion with Cervical Interbody Cages without Plate Fixation

Comparative Study on the Rectangular Titanum or Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) Cage - Augmented Fusion after Single Level Anterior Cervical Discectomy

Anterior Cervical Fusion with Coralline Hydroxyapatite and Rigid Plating: 10-year Follow-up

In Vivo Biomechanical Evaluation of Third Generation Anterior Cervical Plate: A Radiostereometric Analysis

Reasons and Results of Revison of Anterior Cervical Degenerative Spine Surgery at Long-term

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Minimally Invasive Surgery and New Surgical Technologies

Experience with Miniature Robot for Spinal Surgery: 67 Clinical Cases

Virtual Reality Assisted Spinal Surgery

A Novel Technique For The Treatment Of Painful Vertebral Metastasis: Percutaneous Curettage And Interstitial Delivery Of 153Samarium-EDTMP Coupled With Bone Cement/kyphoplasty

Analysis of Accuracy in Positioning Pedicle Screws in the Thoracic and Lumbar Spine Using a Wire Guided Polyaxial Pedicle Screw System

Angiographic Selective Arterial Embolization in Treatment of Patients with Spine and Spinal Cord Pathology

Nitinol Spring Rod Dynamic Stabilization System in Surgical Treatment for Lumbar Spinal Disorders

Is it Possible to Insert Cervical Pedicle Screw with Free-handed Technique? An Experimental Study on the Accuracy of Free-handed and Computer-assisted Screw Insertion in Plastic Cervical Spine Models

Occlusion of the Abdominal Aorta by Balloon Dilation Catheter Assisting Surgical Excision of a Sacrum Chordoma: Case Report

Assessment of Safety and Efficacy in Minimally Invasive versus Open Transforaminal Interbody Fusion

Ultrasonic Devices in Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery

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Cervical Arthroplasty

Results of Cervical Arthroplasty Related to Disc Prosthesis: Bryan versus Pro-C versus Mobi-C

Hybrid Arthroplasty versus Anterior Cervical Interbody Fusion in the Treatment of Contiguous Two-level Cervical Disc Diseases: Motion Analysis

Total Disc Replacement in the Treatment of Cervical Degenerative Disc Disease: A Single Institution Experience In 30 Patients With A One to Two Year Follow-up

Multilevel Cervical Total Disc Replacement for Symptomatic Degenerative Disc Disease

The Effect Of Single-Multilevel Cervical Disc Arthroplasty to the Segmental and Total Lordosis of Cervical Spine

Determination of the Cervical Facet Joint Loading Profile of the Cervicore® Intervertebral Disc Replacement

Prospective Four-Year Follow-up of a Clinical and Radiological Study with 249 Discs Performed. Total Cervical Artificial Disc Replacement with the Porous Coated Motion (PCM) Disc

Clinical Outcome of Bryan Disc Replacement in Cervical Degenerative Disc Disease

Clinical Outcomes of Cervical Arthroplasty with the CerviCore Disc

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Biomechanics

The Effect of Endplate Preparation and Fatigue on the Implant-bone Interface of a ProDisc-C Total Disc Replacement

In Vitro Biomechanical Evaluation af a Total Ceramic-on-ceramic Cervical Disc Prosthesis

The Implication of the Implant Core Radius in Cervical Total Disc Replacement

Preliminary Study of Strain Changes at the Pedicle Cortex During and after Screw Insertion

A Novel and Accurate Biomechanical Testing Method for the Study of Spinal Motion and Stability in Humans

Whole Body Motion and Dynamic Lumbar Stability: Reliability of Flexion/extension Radiographs in Assessing Acute Damage to the Lumbar Spine

Assessement of Screw Loosening for Pedicle Screw Based Posterior Dynamic Stabilization Systems

Influence of Hamstring Tightness in Lumbar and Pelvic Range of Motion

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Lumbar Disc Surgery

Serum Creatine Phosphokinase Activity and Histological Changes of the Multifidus Muscle: A Comparative Study of Discectomy with or without Retraction - Prospective, Randomized Controlled Trial Study

Surgical Factors Affecting Reherniation Rate after Lumbar Discectomy: The Need for an Annular Closure Device

EuroDISC Study – Assessment of Efficacy and Safety of Sequestrectomy Plus Autologous Disc Chondrocytes – Second Interims Analysis

Full-endoscopic Operation of Lumbar Disc Herniation versus the Microsurgical Technique – A Prospective Randomized Comparative Study

Full-endoscopic Operation of Lumbar Recess Stenosis Compared to the Microsurgical Technique

A Novel Technique of Microsurgical Approach through Laminofacet Articular Junction for Lumbar Disc Herniation (Hole Approach)

Ozone Discectomy (Ozonucleolysis) for Discogenic Radiculopathy Arising from Disc Herniation

Nucleus Pulposus Regeneration Using Fresh Autologous Adipose-derived Cells

Complication Risks of the Foraminal Approach to the Lumbar Spine

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Lumbar Spinal Stenosis and Spondylolisthesis

Minimally Invasive Microsurgical Lumbar Decompression with Preservation of the Contralateral Outer Laminar Cortex and Spinous Process: Four Year Comparative Outcomes

Comparision of Unilateral Hemilaminotomy and Bilateral Hemilaminotomy in Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: Clinical Trial

Degenerative Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: Can Radical Decompression and Fusion Be a Real Solution?

A Novel Technigue of Microsurgical Approach through Laminofacet Articular Junction for Foraminal Stenosis and Spondylolisthesis (Hole Approach)

Surgical Treatment of Spondylolisthesis - Our Experience in 93 Cases

Lumbar Lordosis and Sacral Inclination Angles in Patients Treated with Lumbar Instrumentation with Pedicular Screws

Stability of Clinical Outcomes in Elderly Patients Receiving Lumbar Spine Surgery

Age Stratified Outcome Analysis of Surgical Decompression and Fusion for Lumbar Degenerative Spondylolisthesis

Is the Extreme Lateral Disc Herniation Common in Spondylolytic Spondylolisthesis?

Spinal Stenosis in Patients with Achondroplasia

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Thoracic Trauma and Infection

Conservative Treatment of Thoracolumbar Compression Type Fractures

Surgical Management of Thoracolumbar Fractures: A 3-year Consecutive Series of 55 Patients

Percutaneous Transpedicular Screw Fixation (TPSF) of the Thoracic and Lumbar Spine: Introduction of a New Technique

Timing of Thoracic Spine Stabilization in Trauma Patients: Impact on Clinical Course and Neurological Outcome

Disengagement of Thoracic and Thoracolumbar Locked Facet Syndrome with Long Pedicular Schanz Screws Technical Notes

Thoracoscopic Assisted Anterior Surgery for Tuberculous Spondylitis

Classification and Treatment of Spinal Tuberculosis

The Results of Medical Therapy for Thoracic and Lumbar Spine Pott´s Disease In 44 Patients: A Prospective Clinical Study

Effectiveness and Limitation of Posterolateral Endoscopic Debridement and Irrigation for Spinal Infections

Percutaneous Instrumentation for Spondlylodiscitis

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Surgical Complications and TL Fixation

Visceral and Vascular Complications of Anterior Lumbar Disc Replacement: Charité® Artificial Disc

Sympathetic Hypogastric Plexus Dysfunction Following Anterior Lumbar Spine Surgery

Cage Migration and Subsidence in Interbody Fusion with Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) Cage And rhBMP-2

Ectopic Bone in the Lumbar Canal: A Complication of Off-label Use of Bone Morphogenic Protein (BMP)

Video-assisted Thorascopic Surgery (VATS) In Spinal Deformities: Is it Really Minimal Invasive?

Towards a Solution to Postoperative Visual Loss Following Prone Spine Surgery

Complications of Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion Using Recombinant Human Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2

Use of the Lateral Extracavitary Approach for Primary Single Stage Decompression, Arthrodesis, and Instrumentation of Thoracic and Lumbar Lesions

Free Hand Placement of High Thoracic Pedicle Screws with the Aid of Fluoroscopy: Prospective Study in 45 Patients

Segmental Motion at and Adjacent to a 1-level Flexicore® and Fusion