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01-01-2010 | Yearly European Spine Journal Review

The Michel Benoist and Robert Mulholland yearly European Spine Journal Review: a survey of the “medical” articles in the European Spine Journal, 2009

Author: Michel Benoist

Published in: European Spine Journal | Issue 1/2010

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The year 2009 has been one of innovations in the European Spine Journal. Three important new projects have been presented by M. Aebi, Editor in Chief of the journal in three editorials published in the March, May and August issues. They consist of the formation of a Chinese Section Editorial Board, the creation of an Open Operating Theater, and of Grand Rounds. The two latter innovations strongly reinforce the educational role of the journal. …

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Bayley E, Srinivas S, Boszcryk BM (2009) Clinical outcomes of sacroplasty in sacral insufficiency fractures: a review of the literature. Eur Spine J 18:1266–1271CrossRefPubMed

Buchbinder R et al (2009) A randomized trial of vertebroplasty for painful osteoporotic vertebral fractures. N. Eng. J. Med 361(6):557–568CrossRef

Cai C, Pua YH, Lim KC (2009) A clinical prediction rule for classifying patients with low-back pain who demonstrate short-term improvement with mechanical lumbar traction. Eur Spine J 18:554–561CrossRefPubMed

Findlay GFG, Balain B, Trived JM, Jaffray DC (2009) Does walking change the Romberg sign? Eur Spine J 18:1528–1531CrossRefPubMed

George SZ, Teyhen DS, Wu SS et al (2009) Psychosocial education improves low-back pain beliefs: results from a cluster randomized clinical trial in a primary prevention setting. Eur Spine J 18:1050–1058CrossRefPubMed

Gunzburg R, Szpalski M, Callary SA (2009) Effect of a model interspinous implant on lumbar spinal range of motion. Eur Spine J 18:696–703CrossRefPubMed

Gutke A, Hansson ER, Zetherström G et al (2009) Posterior pelvic pain provocation test is negative in patients with lumbar herniated discs. Eur Spine J 18:1008–1013CrossRefPubMed

Hansson T, Suzuki N, Hebelka H et al (2009) The narrowing of the lumbar spinal canal during loaded MRI: the effects of the disc and ligamentum flavum. Eur Spine J 18:679–686CrossRefPubMed

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Hoshino M, Nakamura H, Terai H et al (2009) Factors affecting neurological deficits and intractable back pain in patients with insufficient bone union following osteoporotic vertebral fracture. Eur Spine J 18:1279–1286CrossRefPubMed

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Iizuka Y, Iizuka H, Tsutsumi S et al (2009) Diagnosis of a previously unidentified primary site in patients with spinal metastasis: diagnostic usefulness of laboratory analysis, CT scanning and CT guided biopsy. Eur Spine J 18:1431–1436CrossRefPubMed

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Kandziora F (2009) Reviewer’s comment concerning spinal fractures in patients with ankylosing spinal disorders: a systematic review of the literature on treatment, neurological status and complications. Eur Spine J 18:157CrossRefPubMed

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Mannion AF, Helbing D, Pulkowski N et al (2009) Spinal segmental stabilisation exercises for chronic low-back pain: programme adherence and its influence on clinical outcome. Eur Spine J 18:1881–1891CrossRefPubMed

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Paul W, Arts MP, Brand R, Koes BW (2009) Timing of surgery for sciatica: subgroup analysis alongside a randomized trial. Eur Spine J 18:538–545CrossRef

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Title: The Michel Benoist and Robert Mulholland yearly European Spine Journal Review: a survey of the “medical” articles in the European Spine Journal, 2009
Author: Michel Benoist
Publication date: 01-01-2010
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: European Spine Journal / Issue 1/2010
Print ISSN: 0940-6719
Electronic ISSN: 1432-0932
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-009-1244-x

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