European Spine Journal

The precision, accuracy and validity of detecting posterior ligamentous complex injuries of the thoracic and lumbar spine: a critical appraisal of the literature

Joost J. van Middendorp, Alpesh A. Patel, Michael Schuetz, Andrei F. Joaquim

A review of current treatment of lumbar posterior ring apophysis fracture with lumbar disc herniation

Xueyuan Wu, Wei Ma, Heng Du, Kiran Gurung

Radiological study on disc degeneration of thoracolumbar burst fractures treated by percutaneous pedicle screw fixation

Jian Wang, Yue Zhou, Zheng Feng Zhang, Chang Qing Li, Wen Jie Zheng, Jie Liu

Accuracy of percutaneous pedicle screws for thoracic and lumbar spine fractures: a prospective trial

Timo Michael Heintel, Andreas Berglehner, Rainer Meffert

Application triangular osteosynthesis for vertical unstable sacral fractures

Xudong Hu, Fuxing Pei, Guanglin Wang, Jingguo He, Qingquan Kong, Chongqi Tu

Operative treatment of chance injuries in the paediatric population

Sean Suttor, Randolph Gray, Corrine Bridge, Andrew Cree

Dose response and structural injury in the disability of spinal injury

Mohammed Shakil Patel, Philip Sell

Reviewer’s comment concerning “Dose–response and structural injury in the disability of spinal injury” (doi:10.1007/s00586-012-2498-2 by M. S. Patel et al.)

Rishi M. Kanna

Solid variant of aneurysmal bone cyst on the cervical spine of a child: case report, differential diagnosis and treatment rationale

Christos Karampalis, Robert Lenthall, Bronek Boszczyk

Expert’s comment concerning Grand Rounds case entitled “Solid variant of aneurysmal bone cyst on the cervical spine of a child: case report, differential diagnosis, and treatment rationale” (by Christos Karampalis, Robert Lenthall, and Bronek Boszczyk)

John P. Dormans, Sean P. Kearney

Aneurysmal bone cyst of the mobile spine: the therapeutic role of embolization

L. Amendola, L. Simonetti, C. E. Simoes, S. Bandiera, F. De Iure, S. Boriani

Solitary spinal epidural cavernous angioma: report of nine surgically treated cases and review of the literature

Mahmoud Reza Khalatbari, Kazem Abbassioun, Abbas Amirjmshidi

Treatment of spinal epidural compression due to hematological malignancies: a single institution’s retrospective experience

Charles-Henri Flouzat-Lachaniette, Jérôme Allain, Françoise Roudot-Thoraval, Alexandre Poignard

Modified total en bloc spondylectomy for thoracolumbar spinal tumors via a single posterior approach

Lin Huang, Keng Chen, Ji-chao Ye, Yong Tang, Rui Yang, Peng Wang, Hui-yong Shen

A study investigating the validity of modified Tokuhashi score to decide surgical intervention in patients with metastatic spinal cancer

Harinder Gakhar, Girish N. Swamy, Rajendranath Bommireddy, Denis Calthorpe, Zdenek Klezl

Surgery and survival outcomes of 22 patients with epidural spinal cord compression caused by thyroid tumor spinal metastases

Dan Zhang, Huabin Yin, Zhipeng Wu, Xinghai Yang, Tielong Liu, Jianru Xiao

Is closed-suction drainage necessary after intradural primary spinal cord tumor surgery?

Seil Sohn, Chun Kee Chung, Chi Heon Kim

Cervical spine complications after treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Jason Pui-Yin Cheung, William I. Wei, Keith Dip-Kei Luk

Aneurysmal bone cysts of the spine

Mehmet Zileli, Hasan Serdar Isik, Fatih Ersay Ogut, Merih Is, Sedat Cagli, Cem Calli

Reviewer’s comment concerning “Aneurysmal bone cysts of the spine” (doi:10.1007/s00586-012-2510-x by M. Zileli et al.)

S. Boriani

A methodological, systematic review of evidence-based independent risk factors for surgical site infections after spinal surgery

Dan Xing, Jian-Xiong Ma, Xin-Long Ma, Dong-Hui Song, Jie Wang, Yang Chen, Yang Yang, Shao-Wen Zhu, Bao-Yi Ma, Rui Feng

One-stage surgical treatment for upper thoracic spinal tuberculosis by internal fixation, debridement, and combined interbody and posterior fusion via posterior-only approach

Hongqi Zhang, Bin Sheng, Mingxing Tang, Chaofeng Guo, Shaohua Liu, Shu Huang, Qile Gao, Jinyang Liu, Jianhuang Wu

Isolated posterior instrumentation for selected cases of thoraco-lumbar spinal tuberculosis without anterior instrumentation and without anterior or posterior bone grafting

Malhar N. Kumar, Bushan Joseph, Ravikiran Manur

Posterior instrumentation, anterior column reconstruction with single posterior approach for treatment of pyogenic osteomyelitis of thoracic and lumbar spine

M. Gorensek, R. Kosak, L. Travnik, R. Vengust

Computer-assisted fluoroscopic navigation of percutaneous spinal interventions

Jörg A. K. Ohnsorge, Khaled H. Salem, Andreas Ladenburger, Uwe M. Maus, Markus Weißkopf

Computer tomography assessment of pedicle screw placement in thoracic spine: comparison between free hand and a generic 3D-based navigation techniques

Yasser Allam, J. Silbermann, F. Riese, R. Greiner-Perth

CT-navigation versus fluoroscopy-guided placement of pedicle screws at the thoracolumbar spine: single center experience of 4,500 screws

Albrecht Waschke, Jan Walter, Pedro Duenisch, Rupert Reichart, Rolf Kalff, Christian Ewald

Robotic-assisted pedicle screw placement: lessons learned from the first 102 patients

Xiaobang Hu, Donna D. Ohnmeiss, Isador H. Lieberman

Vertebral echinococcosis leading to spinal cord compression

Frédéric-Antoine Dauchy, Vincent Pointillart, Denis Malvy

Answer to the Letter to the Editor of F.-A. Dauchy et al. concerning manuscript “Intradural extramedullary primary hydatid cyst of the spine: a case report and review of literature”. Eur Spine J, doi:10.1007/s00586-012-2373-1 by I. Lotfinia, S. Sayyahmelli, A. Mahdkhah, M. Shoja M (2012)

Iraj Lotfinia, Ata Mahdkhah

Anterior decompression and fusion for cervical neuroforaminal stenosis

Andreas Pingel, Frank Kandziora

Anterior decompression and fusion for cervical spinal canal stenosis

Andreas Pingel, Frank Kandziora

Anterior cervical discectomy and implantation of an artificial disc (Prestige, Medtronic)

Jens Lehmberg, Bernhard Meyer

Thoracic hemivertebra resection by posterior approach for congenital scoliosis

Ibrahim Obeid, Anouar Bourghli, Jean-Marc Vital

Resection of filum terminale ependymoma

Florian Ringel, Bernhard Meyer

Freehand correction of scoliosis in Rett’s syndrome

Hossein Mehdian, Sherief Elsayed

Announcements for issue 22-2-2013