Issue 4/2011
Content (23 Articles)
Surgery versus conservative management of sciatica due to a lumbar herniated disc: a systematic review
Wilco C. H. Jacobs, Maurits van Tulder, Mark Arts, Sidney M. Rubinstein, Marienke van Middelkoop, Raymond Ostelo, Arianne Verhagen, Bart Koes, Wilco C. Peul
Surgical treatment of cervical kyphosis
Ke Han, Chang Lu, Jing Li, Guang-Zhong Xiong, Bing Wang, Guo-Hua Lv, You-Wen Deng
Anatomical and surgical study of volume determination of the anterolateral epidural space nerve root L5/S1 under the aspect of epidural perineural injection in minimal invasive treatment of lumbar nerve root compression
Wolfram Teske, Sonja Zirke, Jan Nottenkämper, Thomas Lichtinger, Theodoros Theodoridis, Jürgen Krämer, Klaus Schmidt
The influence of age, anthropometrics and range of motion on the morphometry of the synovial folds of the lateral atlanto-axial joints: a pilot study
Alexandra Webb, Angela Darekar, Hamid Rassoulian
Anatomy of the psoas muscle and lumbar plexus with respect to the surgical approach for lateral transpsoas interbody fusion
Christopher K. Kepler, Eric A. Bogner, Richard J. Herzog, Russel C. Huang
An MRI study of psoas major and abdominal large vessels with respect to the X/DLIF approach
Wan-Kun Hu, Shi-Sheng He, Shao-Cheng Zhang, Yan-Bin Liu, Ming Li, Tie-Sheng Hou, Xiao-Lu Ma, Jian Wang
The mechanical response of the lumbar spine to different combinations of disc degenerative changes investigated using randomized poroelastic finite element models
Fabio Galbusera, Hendrik Schmidt, Cornelia Neidlinger-Wilke, Andreas Gottschalk, Hans-Joachim Wilke
Single-nucleotide polymorphism in the hyaluronan and proteoglycan link protein 1 (HAPLN1) gene is associated with spinal osteophyte formation and disc degeneration in Japanese women
Tomohiko Urano, Ken’ichiro Narusawa, Masataka Shiraki, Noriko Sasaki, Takayuki Hosoi, Yasuyoshi Ouchi, Toshitaka Nakamura, Satoshi Inoue
Do early stages of lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration really cause instability? Evaluation of an in vitro database
Annette Kettler, F. Rohlmann, C. Ring, C. Mack, H.-J. Wilke
Disc degeneration of cervical spine on MRI in patients with lumbar disc herniation: comparison study with asymptomatic volunteers
Eijiro Okada, Morio Matsumoto, Hirokazu Fujiwara, Yoshiaki Toyama
Human mesenchymal stem cell co-culture modulates the immunological properties of human intervertebral disc tissue fragments in vitro
Alessandro Bertolo, Thomas Thiede, Niklaus Aebli, Martin Baur, Stephen J. Ferguson, Jivko V. Stoyanov
Clinical significance of cerebrospinal fluid nitric oxide concentrations in degenerative cervical and lumbar diseases
Hiroshi Denda, Shinji Kimura, Akiyoshi Yamazaki, Noboru Hosaka, Yuichi Takano, Kenji Imura, Yoichi Yajiri, Naoto Endo
Perioperative complications with rhBMP-2 in transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion
Kirk Owens, Steven D. Glassman, Jennifer M. Howard, Mladen Djurasovic, Jonathan L. Witten, Leah Y. Carreon
Posterior lumbar interbody fusion using non resorbable poly-ether-ether-ketone versus resorbable poly-l-lactide-co-d,l-lactide fusion devices. Clinical outcome at a minimum of 2-year follow-up
Timothy U. Jiya, T. Smit, B. J. van Royen, M. Mullender
Minimally invasive or open transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion as revision surgery for patients previously treated by open discectomy and decompression of the lumbar spine
Jian Wang, Yue Zhou, Zheng Feng Zhang, Chang Qing Li, Wen Jie Zheng, Jie Liu
Single-level instrumented posterolateral fusion of the lumbar spine with a local bone graft versus an iliac crest bone graft: a prospective, randomized study with a 2-year follow-up
Seiji Ohtori, Miyako Suzuki, Takana Koshi, Masashi Takaso, Masaomi Yamashita, Kazuyo Yamauchi, Gen Inoue, Munetaka Suzuki, Sumihisa Orita, Yawara Eguchi, Nobuyasu Ochiai, Shunji Kishida, Kazuki Kuniyoshi, Junichi Nakamura, Yasuchika Aoki, Tetsuhiro Ishikawa, Gen Arai, Masayuki Miyagi, Hiroto Kamoda, Tomoaki Toyone, Kazuhisa Takahashi
Assessment of successful incorporation of cages after cervical or lumbar intercorporal fusion with [(18)F]fluoride positron-emission tomography/computed tomography
Dorothee R. Fischer, K. Zweifel, V. Treyer, R. Hesselmann, A. Johayem, K. D. M. Stumpe, G. K. von Schulthess, T. F. Hany, K. Strobel
Pyogenic spondylitis in the elderly: a report from Japan with the most aging society
Mitsunori Yoshimoto, Tsuneo Takebayashi, Satoshi Kawaguchi, Hajime Tsuda, Kazunori Ida, Takuro Wada, Toshihiko Yamashita
Modified total en bloc spondylectomy in thoracic vertebra tumour
Changan Guo, Zuoqin Yan, Jian Zhang, Chun Jiang, Jian Dong, Xiaoxing Jiang, Qinming Fei, Dehua Meng, Zhengrong Chen
Endoscopic transnasal resection of the odontoid: case series and clinical course
Jens Gempt, Jens Lehmberg, Astrid E. Grams, Lars Berends, Bernhard Meyer, Michael Stoffel
Erratum to: Needle puncture injury of the rat intervertebral disc affects torsional and compressive biomechanics differently
Arthur J. Michalek, Kristin L. Funabashi, James C. Iatridis