Vol 12, No 4 (April 24, 2026): Journal of Spine Surgery

Expert Consensus

Spinal cord Compression Outcomes Of Treatment (SCOOT) Delphi study
Sheweidin Aziz, Krishan Almeida, Maria Armaou, SCOOT Group, Partha Basu, Eslam Abourisha, Shanmuganathan Rajasekaran, Joseph J. Dias
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Original Article

Wound management practices in surgery for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
Megha R. Aepala, Mohammad Diab; Pediatric Spine Study Group (PSSG)
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Superior displacement of the inflexion point does not predict proximal junctional kyphosis after fusion for adult spinal deformity
Vito Evola, Sohail R. Daulat, Nikhil Dholaria, Dana Saleh, Diego T. Soto Rubio, Mohsen Rostami, Puya Alikhani
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A retrospective cohort analysis of robotic vs. non-robotic same day anterior posterior 1–2 level lumbar spinal fusion
Kevin Mo, Rowen Lin, Justin Chung, William Fang, Shanthan Challa, Taylor Anthony, Ellyn Hirabayashi, Amit Parekh, Daniel Lee, Hugh Bassewitz
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Accuracy of patient-specific rods in long segment multilevel fusions: a single-institution study
William Snyder III, Barnabas Obeng-Gyasi, Anoop S. Chinthala, Andrew Huh, Ahmed Belal, Jae Hyun Kwon, Gordon Mao
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Gravity-drain versus closed-suction subfascial drainage following lumbar decompression and fusion
Jerome C. Murray, Manali Gantaram, Elizabeth M. Torrez, Kyle Wallace, Kavya Sanghavi, Brian McCormick, Zan Naseer, Mesfin A. Lemma
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Hounsfield units as a predictor of cage subsidence and clinical outcomes following anterior cervical discectomy and fusion
Jason Salvato, Frank Vazquez, Taylor Moglia, Ara Khoylyan, Arpitha Pamula, Alex Tang, Tan Chen
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Predictive factors for satisfaction with surgery following anterior posterior same day spinal fusion
Kevin Mo, Rowen Lin, Justin Chung, William Fang, Shanthan Challa, Taylor Anthony, Ellyn Hirabayashi, Amit Parekh, Daniel Lee, Hugh Bassewitz
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Clinical and radiographic outcomes of three-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion using allograft cellular bone matrix
Siraj Shaikh, Daniel Coban, George Abdelmalek, Cyrus Emami, Nikhil Sahai, Ki Hwang, Kumar Sinha
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Effect of hemoglobin A1c levels on 30-day complications after elective anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: a retrospective cohort study
Levi M. Travis, D. Wood Kimbrough, Aneesh V. Samineni, William A. Marmor, Danny Lee, Justin Trapana, Frank Mota, Emmanuel N. Menga
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Automated multi-objective pedicle screw planning
Tobias Götschi, Gian Maranta, Frédéric Cornaz, Frederik Abel, Mazda Farshad, Jonas Widmer
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Risk factors and management of early pain non-response after vertebroplasty in osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures
Le Hoang Nha, Do Cong Thuong, Tran Kien Vu
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Stereotactic radiosurgery for NF2-related schwannomatosis and schwannomatosis-associated spinal tumors: a single-institution cohort
Vivek Sanker, Adrian Urdaneta, Ahed H. Kattaa, Zhikai Li, Rebekka Miller, Chelsea Park, Joseph Frantzias, David J. Park, Steven D. Chang, Atman Desai
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Surgical Technique

Total joint replacement of the lumbar spine: surgical technique and procedural details
J. Alex Sielatycki, Anton Y. Jorgensen, Armen Khachatryan, Benjamin J. Geddes, S. Craig Humphreys, Marcus James, Jon E. Block, Scott D. Hodges
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Review Article

Cost-effectiveness and evidence gaps of advanced technologies in lumbar spine surgery: a scoping review
Andrea Fabregas, Gonzalo F. Del Rio Montesinos, Andrea Vazquez, Nelson I. Molina Lara, David Vázquez Rodríguez, Lancelot Benn
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Anatomy of the intraosseous arterial microvasculature of the adult lumbar vertebral body and its role in fracture healing: a literature review and historical perspective
Diogo Lino Moura, Diogo Casal, Diogo Pais, João Goyri-O’Neill, António Bernardes
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Case Report

Minimally invasive first rib resection for symptomatic thoracic outlet syndrome: a case report
Camryn E. Harvie, John O’Donnell, Richard J. Chung, Windsor Ting, Arthur L. Jenkins III
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Removal of spinopelvic S2 alar-iliac osseointegrative screws: a case report and surgical technique guide
Ryland M. McDermott, Kaitlyn Glover, Vikas Patel
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Novel application of FiberWire for intervertebral disc transection in en bloc spondylectomy: a case report
Omar Zakieh, Akhil Rekulapelli, James F. Bathon, Stephen W. Chenard, Gabriel S. Perrone, Oluwaseun O. Akinduro, Byron F. Stephens
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Expandable corpectomy cage with articulating endcap for correction of severe cervical kyphotic deformity: a case report
Kevin G. Liu, Henry Avetisian, Jason Lin, Michael M. Safaee
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Unilateral biportal endoscopy for thoracic intradural meningioma: a two-case technical report and narrative discussion
Carlos Castillo Rangel, Rodolfo Guerrero Perez, Jorge Agustín González Almazán, José Manuel Galicia Cabello, Adrian Sanhez Gomez, Antonio Equihua Ortega, Carlos Peñafiel Salgado, Jesús Ricardo Hernández Mendoza
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Managing post-laminoplasty deformity after resection in of a cervical intramedullary hemangioblastoma in a 36-year-old male: a case report
Georges Versyck, Janne Tollenaere, Sebastiaan Schelfaut, Joost Dejaegher
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A hybrid posterior microsurgical and lateral full-endoscopic approach for a large calcified thoracic disc herniation: the “hammock technique”—a case report
Ramon Torres, Jaime Gonzalez, Macarena Fodic, Fernando Lira, Felipe Luna
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Hirayama disease in a young Indonesian male: a case report
Hun Yi Koh, Jiawen Fong, Yilun Huang
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An aggressive cervical hemangioma involving the vertebral artery: a case report
Faisal Konbaz, Mohammed Alabdulsalam, Anouar Bourghli, Khaled Almusrea, Waleed Al-Amoudi, Sarah Al-Amoudi, Abdulrahman Alnwiji, Riyadh Alokaili, Sultan Alhammam
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