Vol 4, No 2 (June 30, 2018) - Journal of Spine Surgery

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 (3523) Open Access

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 (3285) Open Access

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 (2647) Open Access

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 (4436) Open Access

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 (3308) Open Access

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 (2045) Open Access

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 (4071) Open Access

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 (6364) Open Access

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 (3039) Open Access

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 (2353) Open Access

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 (2169) Open Access

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 (3549) Open Access

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 (2988) Open Access

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 (2563) Open Access

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 (3775) Open Access

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 (3968) Open Access

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 (2922) Open Access

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 (9318) Open Access

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 (3070) Open Access

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 (3413) Open Access

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 (2290) Open Access

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 (5119) Open Access

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 (2658) Open Access

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 (2525) Open Access

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 (2885) Open Access

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 (2279) Open Access

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 (5345) Open Access

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 (7342) Open Access

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 (4261) Open Access

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 (2297) Open Access

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 (1507) Open Access

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 (2035) Open Access

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 (6345) Open Access