Issue 12/2015
Content (43 Articles)
EuroSpine Task Force on Research: support for spine researchers
Margareta Nordin, Federico Balagué, Kim Burton, Christine Cedraschi, Pierre Côté, Björn Rydevik, L. Rachid Salmi, Marek Szpalski
Videoassisted anterior surgical approaches to the craniocervical junction: rationale and clinical results
Massimiliano Visocchi, Alberto Di Martino, Rosario Maugeri, Ivón González Valcárcel, Vincenzo Grasso, Gaetano Paludetti
Prevalence of C5 nerve root palsy after cervical decompressive surgery: a meta-analysis
Fenyong Shou, Zhe Li, Huan Wang, Chongnan Yan, Qi Liu, Chi Xiao
Polyurethane on titanium unconstrained disc arthroplasty versus anterior discectomy and fusion for the treatment of cervical disc disease: a review of level I–II randomized clinical trials including clinical outcomes
María Aragonés, Eduardo Hevia, Carlos Barrios
Surgical challenges in the management of cervical kyphotic deformity in patients with severe osteoporosis: an illustrative case of a patient with Hajdu–Cheney syndrome
Tobias A. Mattei, Azeem A. Rehman, Ahmad Issawi, Daniel R. Fassett
Occipitocervical stabilization using bilateral laminar C2 screws in children with mucopolysaccharidosis IVA
Petr Vanek, Helena Homolkova, Vladimir Benes, Jiri Zeman
How old is your cervical spine? Cervical spine biological age: a new evaluation scale
Venceslao Wierzbicki, Alessandro Pesce, Luigi Marrocco, Emanuele Piccione, Claudio Colonnese, Riccardo Caruso
Use of intraoperative fluoroscopy for the safe placement of C2 laminar screws: technical note
John A. Engler, Michael L. Smith
Combined endoscopic transnasal and transoral approach for extensive upper cervical osteoradionecrosis
Sien Hui Tan, Dharmendra Ganesan, Wan Z. A. Rusydi, Hari Chandran, Narayanan Prepageran, Vicknes Waran
Unilateral laminoplasty with lateral mass screw fixation for less invasive decompression of the cervical spine: a biomechanical investigation
Gregor Schmeiser, C. Schilling, T. M. Grupp, L. Papavero, K. Püschel, R. Kothe
Biomechanical testing of circumferential instrumentation after cervical multilevel corpectomy
Sebastian Hartmann, Claudius Thomé, Alexander Keiler, Helga Fritsch, Aldemar Andres Hegewald, Werner Schmölz
The evaluation of cervical spine mobility without significant spondylosis by kMRI
Chengjie Xiong, Akinobu Suzuki, Michael D. Daubs, Trevor Scott, Kevin Phan, Jeffrey Wang
Neck range of motion measurements using a new three-dimensional motion analysis system: validity and repeatability
Haruhi Inokuchi, Michio Tojima, Hiroshi Mano, Yuki Ishikawa, Naoshi Ogata, Nobuhiko Haga
Reliability, validity, and responsiveness of the Japanese version of the Patient-Specific Functional Scale in patients with neck pain
Koji Nakamaru, Junya Aizawa, Takayuki Koyama, Osamu Nitta
Responsiveness and minimal important changes for the Neck Disability Index and the Neck Pain Disability Scale in Italian subjects with chronic neck pain
Marco Monticone, Emilia Ambrosini, Howard Vernon, Roberto Brunati, Barbara Rocca, Calogero Foti, Simona Ferrante
A cadaveric study of the cervical nerve roots and spinal segments
Ryoichi Kobayashi, Haku Iizuka, Masahiro Nishinome, Yoichi Iizuka, Hiroshi Yorifuji, Kenji Takagishi
Influence of cervical bone mineral density on cage subsidence in patients following stand-alone anterior cervical discectomy and fusion
Christopher Brenke, Martin Dostal, Johann Scharf, Christel Weiß, Kirsten Schmieder, Martin Barth
Dynamic cervical stabilization: a multicenter study
Guy Matgé, Peter Buddenberg, Marcus Eif, Holger Schenke, Joerg Herdmann
Construct stability of an instrumented 2-level cervical corpectomy model following fatigue testing: biomechanical comparison of circumferential antero-posterior instrumentation versus a novel anterior-only transpedicular screw–plate fixation technique
Heiko Koller, Werner Schmoelz, Juliane Zenner, Alexander Auffarth, Herbert Resch, Wolfgang Hitzl, Davud Malekzadeh, Lukas Ernstbrunner, Martina Blocher, Michael Mayer
Differential segmental motion contribution of single- and two-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion
Andy Chien, Dar-Ming Lai, Shwu-Fen Wang, Chih-Hsiu Cheng, Wei-Li Hsu, Jaw-Lin Wang
Delayed postoperative C5 root palsy and the use of neurophysiologic monitoring
Steven Spitz, Daniel Felbaum, Nima Aghdam, Faheem Sandhu
Bone loss of the superior adjacent vertebral body immediately posterior to the anterior flange of Bryan cervical disc
Sang Hyun Kim, Young Sun Chung, Alexander E. Ropper, Kyung Hoon Min, Tae Keun Ahn, Keun Soo Won, Dong Ah Shin, In Bo Han
Influence of cervical spine position on the radiographic parameters of the thoracic inlet alignment
Piotr Janusz, Marcin Tyrakowski, Pawel Glowka, Roosevelt Offoha, Kris Siemionow
Head repositioning accuracy in patients with neck pain and asymptomatic subjects: concurrent validity, influence of motion speed, motion direction and target distance
Pierre-Michel Dugailly, Roberta De Santis, Mathieu Tits, Stéphane Sobczak, Anna Vigne, Véronique Feipel
Photographic measurement of head and cervical posture when viewing mobile phone: a pilot study
Xiaofei Guan, Guoxin Fan, Xinbo Wu, Ying Zeng, Hang Su, Guangfei Gu, Qi Zhou, Xin Gu, Hailong Zhang, Shisheng He
Correlation between cervical lordosis and adjacent segment pathology after anterior cervical spinal surgery
Soo Eon Lee, Tae-Ahn Jahng, Hyun Jib Kim
Predictors of morbidity and mortality among patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy treated surgically
I. David Kaye, Bryan J. Marascalchi, Angel E. Macagno, Virginie A. Lafage, John A. Bendo, Peter G. Passias
Assessment of the minimum clinically important difference in neurological function and quality of life after surgery in cervical spondylotic myelopathy patients: a prospective cohort study
Feifei Zhou, Yilong Zhang, Yu Sun, Fengshan Zhang, Shengfa Pan, Zhongjun Liu
Functional computed tomography scanning for evaluating fusion status after anterior cervical decompression fusion
Jun Ouchida, Yasutsugu Yukawa, Keigo Ito, Masaaki Machino, Taro Inoue, Keisuke Tomita, Fumihiko Kato
Cervical spondylotic myelopathy: the prediction of outcome following surgical intervention in 93 patients using T1- and T2-weighted MRI scans
Hatem M. I. Salem, Khalid M. I. Salem, Filip Burget, Raj Bommireddy, Zdenek Klezl
The Impact of Modic-2 changes on the clinical outcomes of single-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion
Jia Li, Tao Lei, Yong Shen
Predictors of surgical outcome in cervical spondylotic myelopathy: focusing on the quantitative signal intensity
Jing Tao Zhang, Fan Tao Meng, Shuai Wang, Lin Feng Wang, Yong Shen
Does lumbar spinal stenosis increase the risk of spondylotic cervical spinal cord compression?
Blanka Adamova, Josef Bednarik, Tereza Andrasinova, Ivana Kovalova, Roman Kopacik, Michal Jabornik, Milos Kerkovsky, Barbora Jakubcova, Jiri Jarkovsky
Feasibility and trajectory study of anterior transarticular crossing screw placement for atlantoaxial joint instability: a cadaveric study and description of a novel technique
Wei Ji, Minghui Zheng, Jie Tong, Zhiping Huang, Jianting Chen, Dongbin Qu, Qingan Zhu
Retrospective review of 22 surgically treated adults with congenital anomalies of the upper cervical spine: a clinical and radiological review
Haku Iizuka, Yoichi Iizuka, Tokue Mieda, Ryoichi Kobayashi, Masahiro Nishinome, Tsuyoshi Ara, Yasunori Sorimachi, Takashi Nakajima, Kenji Takagishi
The accuracy of 3D fluoroscopy-navigated screw insertion in the upper and subaxial cervical spine
J. Bredow, J. Oppermann, B. Kraus, P. Schiller, G. Schiffer, R. Sobottke, P. Eysel, T. Koy
Anterior transoral atlantoaxial release and posterior instrumented fusion for irreducible congenital basilar invagination
Vinod Laheri, Kshitij Chaudhary, Ashok Rathod, Mihir Bapat
Craniocervical junction involvement in ankylosing spondylitis
Gleb Slobodin, Arsen Shpigelman, Hanna Dawood, Doron Rimar, Simona Croitoru, Nina Boulman, Michael Rozenbaum, Lisa Kaly, Itzhak Rosner, Majed Odeh
Normal values of cervical spinal cord diffusion tensor in young and middle-aged healthy Chinese
Tin-Yan Chan, Xiang Li, Kin-Cheung Mak, Jason Pui-yin Cheung, Keith Dip-Kei Luk, Yong Hu
Relationship between modic changes and facet joint degeneration in the cervical spine
Moon Soo Park, Seong-Hwan Moon, Tae-Hwan Kim, Seung Yeop Lee, Yoon-Geol Jo, K. Daniel Riew
Minimally invasive cervical foraminotomy and diskectomy for laterally located soft disk herniation
Chi Heon Kim, Kyoung-Tae Kim, Chun Kee Chung, Sung Bae Park, Seung Heon Yang, Sung Mi Kim, Joo-Kyung Sung