European Spine Journal

Memories

Irène Zintel

Differences in lumbar and pelvic parameters among African American, Caucasian and Asian populations

Hideyuki Arima, John R. Dimar II, Steven D. Glassman, Yu Yamato, Yukihiro Matsuyama, Jean-Marc Mac-Thiong, Pierre Roussouly, Brandon Cook, Leah Y. Carreon

Prehospital care of spinal injuries: a historical quest for reasoning and evidence

J. G. ten Brinke, S. R. Groen, M. Dehnad, T. P. Saltzherr, M. Hogervorst, J. C. Goslings

CT for thoracic and lumbar spine fractures: Can CT findings accurately predict posterior ligament complex injury?

Bharti Khurana, Luciano M. Prevedello, Christopher M. Bono, Erwin Lin, Steven T. McCormack, Hamdi Jimale, Mitchel B. Harris, Aaron D. Sodickson

Prospective randomized controlled comparison of posterior vs. posterior–anterior stabilization of thoracolumbar incomplete cranial burst fractures in neurological intact patients: the RASPUTHINE pilot study

Matti Scholz, F. Kandziora, T. Tschauder, M. Kremer, A. Pingel

Reduction and fixation of displaced U-shaped sacral fractures using lumbopelvic fixation: technical recommendations

Stefan Piltz, Bianka Rubenbauer, Wolfgang Böcker, Heiko Trentzsch

Hounsfield units as predictor for cage subsidence and loss of reduction: following posterior-anterior stabilization in thoracolumbar spine fractures

Bernhard Wilhelm Ullrich, Philipp Schenk, Ulrich J. Spiegl, Thomas Mendel, Gunther Olaf Hofmann

Chordoma: a systematic review of the epidemiology and clinical prognostic factors predicting progression-free and overall survival

S. H. Bakker, W. C. H. Jacobs, W. Pondaag, H. Gelderblom, R. A. Nout, P. D. S. Dijkstra, W. C. Peul, C. L. A. Vleggeert-Lankamp

Cryosurgery in the excision of a giant local recurrent sacral chordoma: a case report and literature review

Valerio Pipola, Marco Girolami, Riccardo Ghermandi, Giuseppe Tedesco, Gisberto Evangelisti, Alessandro Gasbarrini

Expert’s Comment concerning Grand Rounds case entitled “Cryosurgery in the excision of a giant local recurrent sacral chordoma: a case report and literature review” by V. Pipola et al. (Eur Spine J; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-017-5438-3)

Sanjay Konakondla, Ziya L. Gokaslan

Paget’s disease of the lumbar spine: decompressive surgery following 17 years of bisphosphonate treatment

Alexander Hofmann, Sabine Opitz, Christoph Eckhard Heyde, Nicolas Heinz von der Höh

Expert’s comment concerning Grand Rounds case entitled “Paget’s disease of the lumbar spine: decompressive surgery following 17 years of bisphosphonate treatment” by A. Hofmann, S. Opitz, C. E. Heyde, N. H. von der Höh (Eur Spine J; 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-018-5751-5)

Robert Dunn

Biomimetic 3D-printed custom-made prosthesis for anterior column reconstruction in the thoracolumbar spine: a tailored option following en bloc resection for spinal tumors

Marco Girolami, Stefano Boriani, Stefano Bandiera, Giovanni Barbanti-Bródano, Riccardo Ghermandi, Silvia Terzi, Giuseppe Tedesco, Gisberto Evangelisti, Valerio Pipola, Alessandro Gasbarrini

Total spondylectomy for Enneking stage III giant cell tumor of the mobile spine

Noriaki Yokogawa, Hideki Murakami, Satoru Demura, Satoshi Kato, Katsuhito Yoshioka, Takaki Shimizu, Norihiro Oku, Ryo Kitagawa, Hiroyuki Tsuchiya

Intraosseous schwannoma of the mobile spine: a report of twenty cases

Yong Qiang Wang, Jin Xin Hu, Shao Min Yang, Liang Jiang, Xiao Guang Liu, Hui Shu Yuan, Feng Wei, Zhong Jun Liu

Post-operative regression of retro-odontoid pseudotumors treated with and without fusion

Kazuyoshi Kobayashi, Shiro Imagama, Kei Ando, Yoshihiro Nishida, Naoki Ishiguro

Radiofrequency ablation in gross total excision of cervical chordoma: ideas and technique

Hua Zhou, Xiaoxiong Yang, Liang Jiang, Feng Wei, Xiaoguang Liu, Zhongjun Liu

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